Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 260.<\/p>\n
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\nintroduce this evening from
\nNumbers six. <\/p>\n
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\nNumber six.
\nAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, <\/p>\n
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\nsaying, Speak unto the children
\nof Israel, and say unto them, <\/p>\n
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\nWhen either man or woman shall
\nseparate themselves to vow a vow<\/p>\n
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\nof a Nazarite to separate
\nthemselves unto the Lord, he <\/p>\n
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\nshall separate himself from wine
\nand strong drink, and shall <\/p>\n
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\ndrink no vinegar of wine, or
\nvinegar of strong drink. <\/p>\n
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\nNeither shall he drink any
\nliquor of grapes, nor eat moist <\/p>\n
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\ngrapes, or dried all the days of
\nhis separation shall he eat <\/p>\n
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\nnothing that is made of the vine
\ntree from the kernels even to <\/p>\n
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\nthe husk.
\nAll the days of the vow of his <\/p>\n
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\nseparation, there shall no razor
\ncome upon his head until the <\/p>\n
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\ndays be fulfilled.
\nIn the which he separateth <\/p>\n
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\nhimself unto the Lord he shall
\nbe holy, and shall let the locks<\/p>\n
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\nof the hair of his head grow.
\nAll the days that he separateth <\/p>\n
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\nhimself unto the Lord, he shall
\ncome at no dead body. <\/p>\n
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\nHe shall not make himself
\nunclean for his father or for <\/p>\n
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\nhis mother, for his brother, or
\nfor his sister when they die, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the consecration of his
\nGod is upon his head. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the days of his separation.
\nHe is holy unto the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if any man die very suddenly
\nby him, and he has to file the <\/p>\n
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\nhead of his consecration, then
\nhe shall shave his head in the <\/p>\n
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\nday of his cleansing.
\nOn the 7th day shall he shave <\/p>\n
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\nit, and on the eighth day he
\nshall bring two turtles or two <\/p>\n
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\nyoung pigeons to the priest to
\nthe door of the Tabernacle of <\/p>\n
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\nthe congregation.
\nAnd the priest shall offer the <\/p>\n
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\none for a sin offering, and the
\nother for a burnt offering, and <\/p>\n
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\nmake an atonement for him.
\nFor that he sinned by the dead, <\/p>\n
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\nand shall hallow his head that
\nsame day. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he shall consecrate unto the
\nLord the days of his separation,<\/p>\n
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\nand shall bring a Lamb of the
\nfirst year for a trespass <\/p>\n
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\noffering.
\nBut the days that were before <\/p>\n
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\nshall be lost, because his
\nseparation was defiled. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is the law of the
\nNazarite. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen the days of his separation
\nare fulfilled, he shall be <\/p>\n
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\nbrought unto the door of the
\nTabernacle of the congregation. <\/p>\n
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\nHe shall offer his offering unto
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nOne he lamb of the first year
\nwithout blemish for a burnt <\/p>\n
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\noffering.
\nAnd one you lamb of the first <\/p>\n
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\nyear without blemish for a sin
\noffering, And one ram without <\/p>\n
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\nblemish for peace Offerings, and
\na basket of unleavened bread, <\/p>\n
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\ncakes of fine flour mingled with
\noil, and wafers of unleavened <\/p>\n
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\nbread, anointed with oil, and
\ntheir meat offering, and their <\/p>\n
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\ndrink offerings.
\nAnd the priest shall bring them <\/p>\n
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\nbefore the Lord, and shall offer
\nhis sin offering and his burnt <\/p>\n
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\noffering.
\nAnd he shall offer the ram for a<\/p>\n
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\nsacrifice of peace offerings
\nunto the Lord with the basket of<\/p>\n
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\nunleavened bread.
\nThe priest shall offer also his <\/p>\n
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\nmeat offering and his drink
\noffering. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Nazarite shall shave the
\nhead of his separation. <\/p>\n
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\nAt the door of the Tabernacle of
\nthe congregation shall take the <\/p>\n
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\nhair of the head of his
\nseparation and put it in the <\/p>\n
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\nfire which is under the
\nsacrifice of the peace <\/p>\n
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\nofferings.
\nAnd the priest shall take the <\/p>\n
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\nsodden shoulder of the ram, and
\none unleavened cake out of the <\/p>\n
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\nbasket, and one unleavened
\nwafer, and shall put them upon <\/p>\n
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\nthe hands of the Nazarite after
\nthe hair of his separation is <\/p>\n
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\nshaved, And the priest shall
\nwave them for a wave offering <\/p>\n
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\nbefore the Lord.
\nThis is holy for the priest with<\/p>\n
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\nthe wave breast and heave
\nshoulder, and after that the <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite may drink wine.
\nThis is the law of the Nazarite,<\/p>\n
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\nwho hath vowed, and of his
\noffering unto the Lord for his <\/p>\n
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\nseparation.
\nBeside that that his hand shall <\/p>\n
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\nget according to the vow which
\nhe vowed, so he must do after <\/p>\n
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\nthe law of his separation.
\nAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, <\/p>\n
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\nsaying, Speak unto Aaron, and
\nunto his sons, saying, On this <\/p>\n
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\nwise ye shall bless the children
\nof Israel, saying unto them, The<\/p>\n
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\nLord bless thee, and keep thee.
\nThe Lord make his face shine <\/p>\n
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\nupon thee, and be gracious unto
\nthee. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Lord lift up his countenance
\nupon thee, and give thee peace. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they shall put my name upon
\nthe children of Israel, and I <\/p>\n
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\nwill bless them.
\nWe now ask her brother Darren to<\/p>\n
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\ncome forward and.
\nContinue his study on the power <\/p>\n
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\nof the presence of God.
\nThanks, brother Nathan, and good<\/p>\n
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\nevening, my dear brothers and
\nsisters in the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, our dear young people.
\nIt’s lovely to be back with you <\/p>\n
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\nagain to continue our thoughts
\non the presence of God. <\/p>\n
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\nTonight we want to change gears
\na little bit. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to probably.
\nTo be a little bit more <\/p>\n
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\nreflective on some of the things
\nwe’re going to talk about and <\/p>\n
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\nthink about, but there’s a
\ncouple of loose ends I want to <\/p>\n
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\ntie up first.
\nSo if I can have a couple of <\/p>\n
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\nminutes just to bring the
\nexpositional part of our studies<\/p>\n
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\nto a conclusion, If you want to
\nturn with me to Hebrews Chapter <\/p>\n
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\n10, if that’s OK.
\nAnd we’ll just make a few <\/p>\n
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\nclosing comments on some of the
\nand bring some of the threads <\/p>\n
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\nthat we’ve been following
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\nRemember how we began our
\nseries, looking at the concept <\/p>\n
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\nof the presence and trying to
\ndefine it as best we could? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we thought the word
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\nThe English word close captured
\nthe idea of the of what presence<\/p>\n
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\nreally is, and we thought about
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\nnumber of dimensions to it.
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\nPhysically close or spatially
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\nalso be relationally close to
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\nAnd as we follow the presence of
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\ntogether in the temple concept
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\nSo the relational closeness of
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\ncomes into existence by
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\nCovenant we spent.
\nA fair bit of time looking at <\/p>\n
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\nthe New covenant, the concept of
\nthe new covenant that really <\/p>\n
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\nallows God in his righteousness
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\ncloseness, this presence in our
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\nAnd so in chapter 10, the
\nreferences there in verse 16 to <\/p>\n
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\nthe New Covenant, we’ve talked
\nabout it already. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I don’t want to go over all
\nthe elements of the New <\/p>\n
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\nCovenant, but it’s really
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\nverse 16.
\nThis is the covenant, the new <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant.
\nI will make with them after <\/p>\n
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\nthose days.
\nIt’s talking about believers <\/p>\n
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\nnow, says the Lord.
\nI will put my laws in their <\/p>\n
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\nhearts and their minds, and I’ll
\nwrite them on their hearts and <\/p>\n
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\ntheir minds and their sins and
\niniquities. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll remember no more.
\nSo this is the new covenant we <\/p>\n
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\nare under.
\nWe remember every Sunday, of <\/p>\n
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\ncourse, as we take the wine.
\nThis is the blood of the New <\/p>\n
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\nCovenant, very powerful symbol
\nthat reminds us of the way that <\/p>\n
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\nwe can have this relationship
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\nAnd also here in Hebrews 10,
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\nto God that’s also emphasized.
\nSo if you drop down to verse 20,<\/p>\n
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\nwe’re told the the, the results
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\nthat relationship we have.
\nIt says, therefore, brethren, we<\/p>\n
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\nhave boldness to enter into the
\nholiest, into the very presence <\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nDoes that idea of holiness <\/p>\n
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\ndepicts the holiness by a new?
\nAnd living way again, it’s new <\/p>\n
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\njust as the the covenant was
\nnew. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this access to the presence
\nof God is something new. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s this new and alive or Zoe
\nway this new and living way <\/p>\n
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\nthrough that that Christ has
\nconsecrated. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says they’re in the AV it
\nreally means inaugurated. <\/p>\n
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\nHe opened up and started it and
\nand inaugurated this whole new <\/p>\n
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\nand living way as depicted there
\nsymbolically as. <\/p>\n
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\nEntering through the veil into
\nthe very presence of God. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we are there with him in a
\nsense. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’ve got these two
\ndimensions that are caught up <\/p>\n
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\nhere in the in the results of
\nwhat we have in Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have this relationship
\nthrough the new covenant which <\/p>\n
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\nis just so beneficial SO1 sided.
\nAnd I hope we got that that <\/p>\n
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\nreality across in our in our
\nthoughts on it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd also, we are in the very
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re connected to God in a very
\nunique way, very incredible way.<\/p>\n
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\nWe thought about believers under
\nthe Old covenant. <\/p>\n
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\nDid they have access to the the
\nholiest? <\/p>\n
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\nDid they have access to the
\npresence of God? <\/p>\n
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\nDid they have access beyond the
\nveil? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, they didn’t.
\nIn fact, the presence of God was<\/p>\n
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\nvery restricted.
\nIf you remember, Psalm 15 says <\/p>\n
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\nwho?
\nWill ascend into my mountain, <\/p>\n
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\ninto the into the mountain of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd who can stand in his holy
\nplace and remember who could, <\/p>\n
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\nWho could?
\nWhat were the conditions that <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 15 says?
\nWell, you had to walk uprightly.<\/p>\n
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\nYou had to all your works had to
\nbe works of righteousness. <\/p>\n
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\nYou had to speak truth.
\nYou had to be honest. <\/p>\n
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\nYou had to be someone who put
\nyourself out for others and <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t misuse your power.
\nThere’s a whole lot of <\/p>\n
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\nconditions.
\nYou had to be righteous to <\/p>\n
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\nascend that hill.
\nAnyone want to read the <\/p>\n
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\nconditions there in Psalm 15 and
\nput their hand up and say they <\/p>\n
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\ncould have?
\nThey could have walked up the <\/p>\n
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\nhill into the presence of God?
\nWell, I couldn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think any of us could.
\nPsalm 24 says exactly the same <\/p>\n
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\nthings.
\nSame thing. <\/p>\n
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\nWho can ascend the hill of the
\nLord who can stand in His <\/p>\n
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\npresence?
\nYou had to have clean hands. <\/p>\n
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\nYou had to have a pure heart.
\nThere had to be no vanity in <\/p>\n
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\nyou.
\nNo, you had to have be a person <\/p>\n
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\nof absolute truth without any
\nhint of a lie or or or <\/p>\n
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\nsubterfuge in your life.
\nWhen you Add all these <\/p>\n
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\ncharacteristics together of who
\ncould walk into the presence of <\/p>\n
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\nqualities together, you have
\nsomething which we may call <\/p>\n
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\nGod required perfection.
\nOnly one person in history has <\/p>\n
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\nbeen able to walk to that hill
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\nin that way and meet those
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\nthat’s our Lord Jesus Christ.
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\nsays he’s opened up this new and
\nliving way through the new <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant that all of us can live
\nin the presence of God, even <\/p>\n
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\nthough we’re not perfect as
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\nConditional Psalms.
\nNow what’s the result then of <\/p>\n
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\nGod, to have this amazing
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\ndepicted by the New Covenant and
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\nWell, this nineteen starts with
\nthese words having therefore. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is where this is the this
\nis the final verse we want to <\/p>\n
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\nthink about brothers and sisters
\nhaving therefore. <\/p>\n
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\nSo these two strands have come
\ntogether, these two temple <\/p>\n
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\nstrands of God’s presence, his
\nrelational connection to His <\/p>\n
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\npeople, and the the spatial
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\ntogether.
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\nWhat What’s the take away?
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\ngoing to tell us having
\ntherefore. <\/p>\n
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\nThat word therefore, in the
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\nwords like a a progressive word.<\/p>\n
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\nbeing met having therefore what
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\nnumber of things we have a
\nnumber of things because of the <\/p>\n
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\nboldness.
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\nWhat does that mean?
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\nIf you look up Strong’s
\nconcordance, the definitions, <\/p>\n
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\nthey are outspokenness.
\nYou can It’s something to be <\/p>\n
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\noutspoken, to be frank, to be
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\npresent with us, we can have
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\nthere, but I think I think the
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\nnuance.
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\nexternal element to it.
\nRather than confidence you can <\/p>\n
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\nBut boldness is something even
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\nAnd here it’s saying because of
\ntheir relationship with God, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause under the law the blood
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\nyou perfect, but the blood of
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\nCan make us perfect.
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\nIt gives us something called
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\nthat means in all our individual
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\nabout our connection to God that
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\nsomething we may shrink away
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\nthe dead opposite of how we may
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\nConscience effect that sin had
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\npresence of God.
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\nand I try and think of a
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\nthe.
\nThe child parent relationship, I<\/p>\n
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\nthink is the best way to try and
\nthink about boldness a child <\/p>\n
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\nhas.
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\na child has with their parent,
\neven if their parent is the <\/p>\n
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\npresident of the United States
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\nThe child has boldness in the
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\nAnd I know with my own father, I
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\nI have a sense of boldness when
\nI talk to Dad. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause we we, whenever we get
\ntogether, we talk about the <\/p>\n
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\nScripture.
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\nand I have boldness to go back
\nat him and say that’s rubbish. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s a sense of but but we
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\nOf course there’s a sense of
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\nI have my own father because I
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\nregardless of our interactions
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\ntogether in a in a way that can
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\nSo there’s a sense of boldness
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nHow we translate that to God is
\nsomething to think about isn’t <\/p>\n
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\nit?
\nBut it’s not. <\/p>\n
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\nI haven’t made this word up,
\nbrothers and sisters, this is <\/p>\n
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\ninspired words, inspired word
\nthat’s been given to us. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it means what it says, and
\nit’s a very strong word. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re also told, therefore, as a
\nresult of this relationship with<\/p>\n
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\nGod, we can draw near this, this
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\nused seven times in the book of
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\nAnd I have an exhortation that
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\ntimes because that’s a really
\npowerful thing, the idea of <\/p>\n
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\ndrawing near to God.
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\nthrough the New Covenant allows
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\nWhen under the Old Covenant
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\nrightly so, in the sense that
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\ntolerate their wickedness of
\ncourse, and and that that is, <\/p>\n
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\nBut something has changed under <\/p>\n
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\neven sinners to draw near. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, as a result of our <\/p>\n
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\nsomething called full assurance.<\/p>\n
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\nit’s it’s an incredible word.
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\ndepicted in this word is a ship <\/p>\n
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\nfull of wind. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s like it’s caught in a Gale
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\nocean, smashing through waves <\/p>\n
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\nand spray everywhere.
\nIt’s it’s unstoppable, it’s full<\/p>\n
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\nsisters, I hope it’s not just
\nbeen all verses that we’ve <\/p>\n
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\nthought about it. <\/p>\n
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\nconnected to the word euphoria. <\/p>\n
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\nwhat we have in Christ boldness
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\nthis full assurance in Christ, <\/p>\n
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\nto try and get some of that
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\nAnd it’s not being based upon
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\nIt’s been it’s very much
\nanchored and and and cemented <\/p>\n
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\ndown by the inspired word of God
\nand the concepts that have been <\/p>\n
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\nrevealed to God by God, to us.
\nSo as I said that hopefully that<\/p>\n
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\nbrings together the the concept
\nof God’s presence from an <\/p>\n
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\nexpositional point of view.
\nAnd as I said, we wanted to <\/p>\n
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\na bit more reflective and think <\/p>\n
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\nabout how this all works and and
\nwhat what what, what we can take<\/p>\n
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\nrelationship. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when there’s any <\/p>\n
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\ntwo parties to a relationship, <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so in this particular <\/p>\n
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\nthis and maybe there’s a bit of,<\/p>\n
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\nTime to recalibrate maybe our <\/p>\n
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\nis is exactly biblical or not. <\/p>\n
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\npractical outworking or a <\/p>\n
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\nsome of our perceptions and to <\/p>\n
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\nfollows some of those mental <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s an example, the one <\/p>\n
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\nhe’s confronted by the Lord and <\/p>\n
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\nasked what he’s done with that
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\nAnd he says, Lord, I knew you
\nand I knew that you I knew. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said I knew he was very
\nconfident. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:20:54,560 –> 00:20:58,960
\nI knew you to be a hard man,
\nreaping where you did not sow <\/p>\n
339
\n00:20:59,000 –> 00:21:02,640
\nand gathering where you where
\nyou did not seed, and look at <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:02,640 –> 00:21:06,600
\nthe the practical result that
\nhad on him as a result of his <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:06,600 –> 00:21:09,880
\nso-called knowledge of the Lord,
\nhe says. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:09,880 –> 00:21:13,880
\nI was afraid and I went and hid
\nyour talent in the ground. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:14,320 –> 00:21:17,960
\nThere was a paralysis that came
\nabout because of this <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:18,600 –> 00:21:20,880
\nmisconception of the Lord that
\nhe had. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:21,520 –> 00:21:24,880
\nAnd so you can see this
\noverwhelming fear of his Lord <\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:25,160 –> 00:21:28,160
\nled to this inability to even
\nserve His Lord. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:28,520 –> 00:21:30,200
\nThere was something wrong in the
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:30,200 –> 00:21:34,600
\nThere was a misconception coming
\nfrom coming from the human end <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:35,200 –> 00:21:38,600
\nand we just want to think about
\nthis a little bit tonight and <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:38,600 –> 00:21:42,080
\nsee if our calibration needs a
\nlittle bit of tuning there. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:43,160 –> 00:21:45,800
\nLet’s first think about man.
\nThat’s that’s us, of course, and<\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:45,800 –> 00:21:50,280
\nhow how how God sees us and how
\nGod views us. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:51,480 –> 00:21:56,160
\nBecause in our language there
\ncan be sometimes a very negative<\/p>\n
354
\n00:21:56,160 –> 00:21:59,120
\nperception of humans and humans
\nare evil. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:59,120 –> 00:22:01,600
\nThere’s no doubt about that.
\nAnd and there’s many verses in <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:01,600 –> 00:22:03,280
\nthe Bible that talk about the
\nhuman heart. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:04,480 –> 00:22:07,880
\nBut we sometimes get this
\npicture that humans are just <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:07,880 –> 00:22:09,880
\nthis wretched creature of the
\ndust. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:09,880 –> 00:22:14,000
\nThat’s the term we use and
\nthere’s an appropriate place to <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:14,000 –> 00:22:16,840
\nuse that language but we’re
\ngoing to see is that is that <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:16,840 –> 00:22:20,480
\nreally the whole picture is is
\nare humans just this depraved, <\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:20,880 –> 00:22:26,120
\nwretched horrible thing that is
\nso offensive to God? <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:26,120 –> 00:22:28,120
\nIs that is that really what what
\na human is. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:30,800 –> 00:22:35,520
\nThere are places in the Bible
\nthat compare us to say <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:35,520 –> 00:22:38,560
\ngrasshoppers in God’s sight and
\nthat we’re we’re nothing in <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:38,560 –> 00:22:41,920
\nGod’s sight.
\nGod’s so great above us and our <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:42,000 –> 00:22:44,400
\nthoughts are not his thoughts,
\nand they are appropriate <\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:44,400 –> 00:22:47,280
\ncomparisons because God is so
\ngreat and so holy. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:22:48,120 –> 00:22:52,320
\nBut sometimes you can extract
\nfrom that this this idea that <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:52,320 –> 00:22:56,960
\nman is absolutely nothing man.
\nMan’s a disgusting, horrible <\/p>\n
371
\n00:22:56,960 –> 00:23:02,680
\nthing that that that has no no
\nway is is man connected to the <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:02,680 –> 00:23:05,640
\npresence of God or has any
\nconnection to God whatsoever. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:06,040 –> 00:23:07,800
\nBut let’s think about man for a
\nmoment. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:07,800 –> 00:23:12,840
\nIn In the big picture, God, of
\ncourse created man. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:15,040 –> 00:23:18,200
\nIn the creation record, of
\ncourse there’s this word good. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:18,200 –> 00:23:21,520
\nWhen God observes his creation
\nas it progresses through the <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:21,520 –> 00:23:24,120
\ndays and God sees something, he
\nsays it was it was good. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:24,120 –> 00:23:26,080
\nAnd he said and behold, it was
\nit was good. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:26,840 –> 00:23:30,080
\nIt’s not until man is created
\nthat God looks at the whole of <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:30,080 –> 00:23:32,640
\ncreation and says it was very
\ngood. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:33,280 –> 00:23:37,480
\nThere was something about man
\nthat was the pinnacle of God’s <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:37,480 –> 00:23:38,960
\ncreation.
\nIt was something that God was <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:38,960 –> 00:23:43,960
\nworking towards and all the
\nother platforms and elements <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:43,960 –> 00:23:46,800
\nthat were part of the creation
\nwere, were coming together to <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:47,160 –> 00:23:52,760
\nprovide a place where God could
\nput this thing called man, this,<\/p>\n
386
\n00:23:52,960 –> 00:23:56,040
\nthis this creation that he calls
\nman. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:23:56,040 –> 00:23:59,040
\nAnd there’s something very
\nspecial and unique about man. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:59,360 –> 00:24:02,280
\nAnd we’re told in Genesis 127,
\nThese of course are very well <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:02,280 –> 00:24:07,680
\nknown, very well known words
\nthat man was made after the <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:07,720 –> 00:24:10,760
\nimage of God, and the image and
\nlikeness of God after his own <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:10,760 –> 00:24:13,200
\nimage.
\nGod created man. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:14,280 –> 00:24:17,240
\nIt’s hard to really define the
\nidea of image it’s got. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:17,240 –> 00:24:20,280
\nThere’s lots of different
\ncommentators and experts talk <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:20,280 –> 00:24:23,320
\nabout what it may mean and we
\ntalk about the fact that we <\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:23,320 –> 00:24:26,920
\nmight reflect that we’ve got
\nhuman consciousness is a unique <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:27,160 –> 00:24:30,400
\nand unexplainable phenomenon
\nthat no one can really explain. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:30,400 –> 00:24:34,800
\nHow this software got into our
\nphysical being that that allows <\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:34,800 –> 00:24:38,160
\nus to have self-awareness and
\nand and maybe that is how we are<\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:38,600 –> 00:24:42,400
\nin the image of God.
\nThe capacities we have for for <\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:42,680 –> 00:24:46,760
\nrational thought and worship and
\nthinking, intelligence, the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:47,200 –> 00:24:51,280
\nability to make moral choices.
\nAll these things are no doubt <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:51,680 –> 00:24:54,440
\npart and parcel of what it means
\nto be in the image of God. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:55,120 –> 00:25:00,480
\nBut ultimately the image of God
\nis a family thing. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:01,120 –> 00:25:07,480
\nUltimately, it’s saying we are
\nGod’s offspring. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:07,480 –> 00:25:11,120
\nWe are God’s children.
\nHumans are not an animal. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:11,760 –> 00:25:14,040
\nThey are not part of the animal
\nworld. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:14,040 –> 00:25:15,840
\nIn that sense, there’s something
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:15,840 –> 00:25:17,720
\nAlthough there’s a lot of
\nfeatures in common with the <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:17,720 –> 00:25:20,960
\nanimals, and we eat similar food
\nto the animals and have similar <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:21,960 –> 00:25:26,120
\nmorphological and and and
\nbiological processes. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:26,920 –> 00:25:30,360
\nThere’s something different and
\nunique about humans and here’s <\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:30,360 –> 00:25:33,240
\nthis quote in Genesis 5.
\nThree that I’m sure many of us <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:33,240 –> 00:25:36,760
\nknow but it shows with this
\nword, with this concept of <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:36,760 –> 00:25:41,240
\nlikeness is used in connection
\nwith a with a human child. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:41,240 –> 00:25:45,360
\nSo Adam lives 130 years.
\nHe has a son in his own likeness<\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:45,760 –> 00:25:50,280
\nand after his own image and
\ncalls him Seth was because Seth <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:50,280 –> 00:25:53,480
\nwas a little Adam.
\nSeth came from Adam. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:53,760 –> 00:25:58,080
\nHe was in his image and likeness
\nand if we wind that back then <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:58,520 –> 00:26:02,400
\nAdam is made in the image and
\nlikeness of God. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:26:02,400 –> 00:26:06,280
\nWe are God’s children.
\nThere’s something very <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:06,280 –> 00:26:10,400
\nincredible about being a human.
\nThere’s something very amazing <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:10,400 –> 00:26:14,280
\nabout it.
\nAnd sometimes we think in terms <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:14,280 –> 00:26:16,160
\nand and rightly so.
\nYou know what is? <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:18,960 –> 00:26:22,160
\nWhat is man?
\nAs Psalm 8 says, what is what is<\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:22,160 –> 00:26:24,280
\nman?
\nThat God’s mindful of him or the<\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:24,280 –> 00:26:28,200
\nSon of man that God visits him.
\nThat man seems like nothing, and<\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:29,280 –> 00:26:30,760
\nthat is right.
\nAt one level. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:30,760 –> 00:26:35,120
\nThere is this gulf between us in
\nfrom a wisdom and power point of<\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:35,120 –> 00:26:38,960
\nview, but so is there a gulf
\nbetween a father and a little <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:39,040 –> 00:26:42,000
\nnewborn child.
\nBut they’re still connected. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:42,000 –> 00:26:44,520
\nThere’s still a connection
\nbetween the two of them. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:46,440 –> 00:26:51,240
\nI know it at my work.
\nI work, my office is in the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:51,240 –> 00:26:54,240
\nwestern suburbs, so my my office
\nis like the United Nations. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:54,240 –> 00:26:57,360
\nWe’ve got every tongue and
\nkindred under heaven there, <\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:57,360 –> 00:26:59,040
\nwhich is lovely.
\nAnd we all talk about <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:59,240 –> 00:27:01,320
\ninteresting things.
\nBut in my office I have a <\/p>\n
437
\n00:27:01,320 –> 00:27:03,240
\nPalestinian Christian, believe
\nit or not. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:03,240 –> 00:27:07,440
\nAnd he’s very pro Israel, and
\nhe’s got cousins in the Israeli <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:07,440 –> 00:27:08,400
\narmy.
\nAnd we have, we have good <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:08,440 –> 00:27:12,880
\nconversations, but he likes this
\nis very, very incredible. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:12,880 –> 00:27:14,920
\nHe’s a Palestinian Christian who
\nloves listening to Jewish <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:14,920 –> 00:27:17,960
\nrabbis.
\nSo occasionally he’ll give me a <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:18,800 –> 00:27:21,040
\na little YouTube clip or
\nsomething from a rabbi that he <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:21,040 –> 00:27:24,280
\nlikes to listen to, and he’s got
\na few favourites, but there’s <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:24,280 –> 00:27:26,160
\none of them.
\nI was listening to it in the car<\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:26,160 –> 00:27:31,160
\nand it was a rabbi and he was
\nexplaining what Judaism gave the<\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:31,160 –> 00:27:33,040
\nworld.
\nAnd he says a lot of people <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:33,040 –> 00:27:37,160
\nthink Judaism gave the world
\nmonotheism, which is worshipping<\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:37,160 –> 00:27:39,760
\none God.
\nThat was the unique gift that <\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:39,760 –> 00:27:41,960
\nthat that Judaism gave the
\nworld, he said. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:41,960 –> 00:27:45,480
\nThat’s not really the case.
\nThat’s not really what the Jews <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:45,480 –> 00:27:49,520
\ngave the world, he said.
\nWe what we really gave the world<\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:50,600 –> 00:27:55,840
\nwas the fact that there is a God
\nwho is relational, that has that<\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:55,840 –> 00:27:59,800
\nwants a relationship, that has
\npersonality and feelings and is <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:59,960 –> 00:28:01,680
\nwants to be connected to his
\ncreation. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:01,680 –> 00:28:05,520
\nHe said that was the real gift
\nthat Judaism gave the world and <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:05,520 –> 00:28:09,200
\nand of course changed the world.
\nAnd this is this start really <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:09,200 –> 00:28:13,400
\nstarted started me thinking and
\nhe said this. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:13,440 –> 00:28:18,200
\nGod is presented to us in a way
\nand presents himself to us in a <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:18,200 –> 00:28:22,960
\nway that he has feelings, he has
\nemotions, he gets jealous, he <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:22,960 –> 00:28:26,240
\ngets angry, he gets he’s
\nsorrowful, all these different <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:26,240 –> 00:28:28,760
\nthings.
\nGod is, God is connecting with <\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:28,760 –> 00:28:30,400
\nhis creation.
\nThere’s a there’s a there’s <\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:30,400 –> 00:28:36,560
\nsimilar emotional feelings that
\nhis creation reflects and has. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:37,600 –> 00:28:43,720
\nAnd he says God also has needs.
\nNow this threw me. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:43,720 –> 00:28:46,480
\nI have to say I threw me when he
\nwhen he said God has needs. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:48,120 –> 00:28:50,920
\nWe think of God as self existing
\nof course and not needing <\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:50,920 –> 00:28:55,280
\nanything and and and that is of
\ncourse he’s right. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:55,280 –> 00:28:56,760
\nWe’ll we’ll expand on that in a
\nmoment. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:57,200 –> 00:29:00,520
\nBut it’s interesting to say that
\nif he is like his creation that <\/p>\n
471
\n00:29:00,520 –> 00:29:03,400
\nhe has feelings and he has
\nemotions. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:05,360 –> 00:29:07,960
\nThe rabbi went on to say why did
\nhe even create people? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:07,960 –> 00:29:09,760
\nWas it just a science
\nexperiment? <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:09,760 –> 00:29:11,960
\nThat God was just saying, I’m
\ngoing to make little puppets or <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:11,960 –> 00:29:15,600
\nI’m going to make a little Ant
\nand I’m just going to see how <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:15,600 –> 00:29:18,800
\nthese things work and I’m going
\nto look and say no, God was <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:23,840
\nmaking companions for himself.
\nGod has needs. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:24,680 –> 00:29:28,240
\nNow, you may feel uncomfortable
\nabout using that language, and <\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:28,240 –> 00:29:32,840
\nif if you do, you can say it’s
\ndesires or wants, if you like <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:32,840 –> 00:29:36,000
\nit, that makes you feel better.
\nBut let’s let’s just flesh this <\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:36,000 –> 00:29:43,440
\nout for a minute.
\nGod created Adam in his own <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:43,480 –> 00:29:47,400
\nimage and likeness.
\nThis is this is in in paradise. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:47,400 –> 00:29:48,960
\nThere’s no scene entered the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:49,480 –> 00:29:53,720
\nEverything says it should be and
\nhe’s Adam made in the image and <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:53,720 –> 00:29:57,040
\nlikeness A reflection of God.
\nJohn Thomas says the image is <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:57,040 –> 00:30:00,600
\nlike a mirror.
\nHis his his mirror is clean, <\/p>\n
487
\n00:30:00,600 –> 00:30:02,880
\nvery clean.
\nAt this point of creation is the<\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:02,880 –> 00:30:10,560
\nimage and likeness of God.
\nAnd on day one, Adam, day one, <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:11,600 –> 00:30:13,520
\nhe got some jobs to do.
\nHe’s naming animals. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:13,520 –> 00:30:16,160
\nHe’s done all this.
\nOn day one. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:16,520 –> 00:30:21,360
\nHe gets lonely.
\nThink about that. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:22,040 –> 00:30:28,200
\nDay one, he gets lonely.
\nDoes God condemn him for being <\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:28,200 –> 00:30:32,400
\nlonely or to say you baby grow
\nup or, you know, get over it, <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:32,480 –> 00:30:36,640
\nyou’ve got more work to do.
\nGod actually says in his <\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:36,640 –> 00:30:39,960
\nresponse to his loneliness.
\nThere’s something intrinsic in <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:40,720 –> 00:30:44,040
\nAdam, who’s reflecting in the
\nvery purest sense of the word, <\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:44,040 –> 00:30:51,360
\nreflecting the Creator as a son.
\nGod says it’s not good that you <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:51,360 –> 00:30:55,160
\nshould be alone.
\nSo not only did God not condemn <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:55,160 –> 00:30:57,480
\nthe loneliness, God said it’s
\nnot. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:57,480 –> 00:30:59,920
\nLoneliness is not good.
\nAnd even though my creation is <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:59,920 –> 00:31:02,200
\nvery good, there’s something not
\ngood in it. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:31:02,800 –> 00:31:04,040
\nThere’s something that’s
\nmissing. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:31:04,040 –> 00:31:06,920
\nAnd so of course, Evie’s made as
\na companion. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:31:07,800 –> 00:31:11,560
\nBut the very fact that Adam has
\nthis need for a connection for a<\/p>\n
505
\n00:31:11,560 –> 00:31:16,560
\nrelationship reflecting his very
\nown father, who created him. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:31:17,040 –> 00:31:19,120
\nAs I said before, sin and death
\nentered the world. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:20,120 –> 00:31:22,560
\nSo I thought I might look at
\nthis a bit more deeper. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:22,560 –> 00:31:24,360
\nSo I went into Genesis to have a
\nlook at it. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:31:24,920 –> 00:31:31,240
\nWhile I was sorry, I forgot to
\ntalk about the the concept of <\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:31,240 –> 00:31:33,880
\nbeing in the image of God has
\nvery serious implications <\/p>\n
511
\n00:31:33,880 –> 00:31:35,760
\nthrough the whole of human
\nhistory. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:31:37,720 –> 00:31:41,440
\nGenesis 9 following the the
\nflood. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:41,520 –> 00:31:44,000
\nYou know, God steps into the
\nflood because of the violence <\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:44,000 –> 00:31:46,080
\nand because of murder.
\nAnd so in Genesis 9 there’s a <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:46,080 –> 00:31:48,400
\nprohibition placed upon killing
\nyou. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:48,400 –> 00:31:50,200
\nGod says you can kill all the
\nanimals and eat them. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:50,640 –> 00:31:53,000
\nDon’t kill humans.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:53,600 –> 00:31:56,160
\nBecause they are made in the
\nimage of God. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:56,160 –> 00:31:59,120
\nThere’s something about humans.
\nAct 17. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:59,120 –> 00:32:02,160
\nWe’ve talked about this already.
\nPaul says we are his offspring. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:32:02,160 –> 00:32:04,600
\nHe’s not just talking about
\nbelievers in Christ, he’s <\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:04,640 –> 00:32:06,760
\ntalking about all humans.
\nWe are his offspring. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:07,200 –> 00:32:10,480
\nAnd there’s interesting verse in
\nJames 3 where James says don’t <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:10,480 –> 00:32:14,800
\ncurse humans, don’t curse men
\nwho were made in the similitude <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:16,440
\nor the image and likeness of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:32:17,520 –> 00:32:19,320
\nHe’s not just talking about
\nbelievers there either. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:32:19,760 –> 00:32:21,760
\nSo there’s something about
\nhumans. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:32:21,760 –> 00:32:23,880
\nThere’s a level of dignity,
\nthere’s a, there’s a, there’s a <\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:23,880 –> 00:32:28,520
\nlevel of protection they have
\nunder the eternal divine law <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:28,520 –> 00:32:31,800
\nbecause they are God’s children.
\nWe don’t, we can’t kill somebody<\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:33,160 –> 00:32:43,880
\nunder that.
\nLet’s just think about Genesis <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:44,320 –> 00:32:47,160
\nin the creation record to try
\nand get a picture of how <\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:47,680 –> 00:32:51,000
\nimportant man was in this in in
\nthe creation of the world. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:51,000 –> 00:32:55,320
\nSo you’ve probably heard before
\nhow Genesis One and Genesis 2 <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:55,320 –> 00:32:57,720
\nare significantly different in
\nthe language and the style of <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:57,720 –> 00:32:59,960
\nlanguage that he that he’s used,
\neven the Hebrew words that he <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:59,960 –> 00:33:02,000
\nused.
\nAnd some people have wrongly <\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:04,000 –> 00:33:05,280
\ncalled these two creation
\nrecords. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:05,280 –> 00:33:07,280
\nI don’t know if you ever heard
\npeople say there’s two creation <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:07,280 –> 00:33:08,640
\nrecords.
\nThere’s not two creation <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:08,640 –> 00:33:11,760
\nrecords.
\nGenesis 2 is an expansion or a <\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:11,760 –> 00:33:15,400
\ndrool down if you like, into the
\ninto the 6th day in the creation<\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:17,920
\nof man.
\nBut but it is interesting and it<\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:17,920 –> 00:33:21,440
\nis very true that there are
\nsignificant differences in <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:21,440 –> 00:33:26,800
\nGenesis One and Genesis 2.
\nSo in Genesis, One God is <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:32,360
\nreferred to by the title Elohim,
\nand it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s has <\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:32,360 –> 00:33:34,160
\nan impersonal aspect to it,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:34,160 –> 00:33:38,640
\nElohim is is referring to the
\nthe ale, the power of God. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:38,640 –> 00:33:40,920
\nSo it’s God’s power, God’s
\nenergy. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:41,080 –> 00:33:44,280
\nAnd that’s how God presents
\nhimself in those in that very <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:44,280 –> 00:33:46,440
\nfirst chapter.
\nAnd as you read through that <\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:46,440 –> 00:33:52,080
\nfirst chapter, you have God in a
\nsense like a distant king and <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:52,080 –> 00:33:56,160
\nhe’s he’s calling out commands.
\nHe says let there be light and <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:56,160 –> 00:34:01,080
\nthen bam, there’s light and let
\nthe dry ground separate from the<\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:01,080 –> 00:34:04,040
\nwater and the waters rush back
\nand the and the king is making <\/p>\n
556
\n00:34:04,040 –> 00:34:07,320
\nthese these commands and his
\nword brings about this physical <\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:07,320 –> 00:34:10,199
\nreality as things happen from
\nhis commands. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:11,400 –> 00:34:14,679
\nWhen you get to chapter 2, it’s
\nvery, very different. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:15,719 –> 00:34:20,000
\nIn chapter 2, God is now called
\nYahweh, His personal name. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:20,360 –> 00:34:23,480
\nWe know someone’s name is a very
\nintimate thing, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:23,480 –> 00:34:26,000
\nWhen you hear your name
\nmentioned, you, you lynch and <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:26,000 –> 00:34:28,679
\nyou, and you turn around your
\nname something close to <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:28,679 –> 00:34:31,440
\nsomething important to you.
\nGod now presents his covenant <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:31,440 –> 00:34:34,960
\nname.
\nWhen we get into chapter 2, no <\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:40,280
\nlonger is God creating by by
\ncommand, by just yelling <\/p>\n
566
\n00:34:40,280 –> 00:34:41,480
\ncommands.
\nLet there be light. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:41,480 –> 00:34:43,800
\nLet the earth bring forth this
\nand that. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:44,480 –> 00:34:48,320
\nNow God’s down and and personal
\nin the creation record. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:48,520 –> 00:34:50,400
\nHe’s right.
\nHe’s down in the garden, as it <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:55,120
\nwere, not calling out things
\nfrom from an apparent distance. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:56,000 –> 00:34:58,280
\nHe makes man.
\nNow this is really where it gets<\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:58,280 –> 00:35:00,360
\ninteresting.
\nHe makes him, as it were, with <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:00,360 –> 00:35:04,200
\nhis own hands.
\nHe forms him out of the clay, <\/p>\n
574
\n00:35:04,200 –> 00:35:07,880
\nout of the dust of the earth.
\nHe makes man. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:11,840
\nHe hasn’t done that with the
\nanimals, with the mountains, <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:11,840 –> 00:35:14,200
\nwith the dry land, with the fish
\nof the sea. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:14,200 –> 00:35:16,360
\nThey they’ve just come into
\nexistence from his, the power of<\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:16,360 –> 00:35:21,080
\nhis word.
\nNow he’s forming man like a <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:21,080 –> 00:35:22,440
\nPotter.
\nHe’s making man. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:22,760 –> 00:35:25,240
\nIt’s very personal, very
\nintimate. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:26,200 –> 00:35:31,400
\nAnd then he breathes into his
\nnostrils, the breath of life. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:38,280
\nNow, how this all played out is,
\nis hard to know in reality, but <\/p>\n
583
\n00:35:38,520 –> 00:35:42,640
\nit forgot to do that to an
\ninanimate body. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:35:42,640 –> 00:35:45,080
\nGot his innocence getting down
\non his knees, isn’t he? <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:45,080 –> 00:35:48,560
\nHe’s he’s coming.
\nHe’s condescending down and he’s<\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:48,560 –> 00:35:52,720
\nfixing his lips around the
\nnostrils, which is again, a very<\/p>\n
587
\n00:35:52,720 –> 00:35:55,200
\nintimate and tender part of
\none’s body. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:57,680
\nYou don’t touch people’s
\nnostrils at the whole, I <\/p>\n
589
\n00:35:57,680 –> 00:35:59,680
\nimagine.
\nSo the nostrils are very, you <\/p>\n
590
\n00:35:59,680 –> 00:36:04,840
\nknow, intimate.
\nIt’s now connected to God’s <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:04,840 –> 00:36:07,120
\nmouth, if you like.
\nHe breathes into his nostrils, <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:07,120 –> 00:36:09,200
\nthe breath of life.
\nYou can see there’s a very much <\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:13,760
\na different picture of creation
\nhere than just commands by Fiat.<\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:17,440
\nAnd now God breathes that life
\ninto man. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:18,000 –> 00:36:19,480
\nGod then goes on to plant the
\ngarden. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:19,480 –> 00:36:21,840
\nHe puts man in the garden.
\nThe words like, hey, you would <\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:21,840 –> 00:36:25,320
\nplace a puppy, if you like, in a
\nin a basket of places man the <\/p>\n
598
\n00:36:25,320 –> 00:36:27,160
\ngarden.
\nWe know in the story. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:36:27,840 –> 00:36:30,520
\nLater on in the narrative there
\nGod walks, as it were, in the <\/p>\n
600
\n00:36:30,520 –> 00:36:33,160
\ngarden with adamant, even
\nconverses with them. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:36:33,160 –> 00:36:38,560
\nSo we do have this, this
\nintimate connection between this<\/p>\n
602
\n00:36:39,160 –> 00:36:42,840
\nvery special part of his
\ncreation, which is which is man.<\/p>\n
603
\n00:36:43,400 –> 00:36:46,360
\nAnd this is this is something
\nthat’s I think it’s quite <\/p>\n
604
\n00:36:46,360 –> 00:36:48,520
\nprofound when we when we think
\nabout it. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:36:50,280 –> 00:36:55,240
\nWhen I I, I went to look at this
\nfor myself so I I said I saw <\/p>\n
606
\n00:36:55,280 –> 00:37:00,040
\nthis rabbi talking about this
\nconcept and I thought wow this <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:00,040 –> 00:37:05,360
\nis this is quite amazing but you
\nknow is is there is there some <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:05,360 –> 00:37:08,760
\nother is there evidence for it.
\nSo I went and looked at Genesis <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:08,760 –> 00:37:12,560
\nOne and I use I use Esau because
\nI don’t like change. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:12,560 –> 00:37:16,720
\nI can’t get out of my habits.
\nI love Esau in any sort. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:16,720 –> 00:37:20,200
\nI have a Christadelphian
\ncommentary called the Agora, <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:20,840 –> 00:37:26,560
\nwhich is a fantastic little tool
\nif you don’t have it, and it has<\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:26,600 –> 00:37:29,840
\na basically a commentary on
\nevery every verse in the Bible <\/p>\n
614
\n00:37:30,520 –> 00:37:32,840
\nwritten by brother George Booker
\nfrom the United States. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:37:34,480 –> 00:37:36,480
\nWith this idea in my mind
\nalready. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:37:36,480 –> 00:37:40,360
\nI went to Genesis, looked at
\nGenesis one verse 26, etcetera, <\/p>\n
617
\n00:37:40,360 –> 00:37:44,000
\ntrying to look at this idea.
\nAnd then I looked at, I looked <\/p>\n
618
\n00:37:44,000 –> 00:37:47,080
\nat the Agora, looked at the
\nconcepts, and I was, I was sort <\/p>\n
619
\n00:37:47,080 –> 00:37:48,440
\nof blown away.
\nIt’s one of those times when you<\/p>\n
620
\n00:37:48,440 –> 00:37:51,760
\nget some amazing confirmation on
\nsomething you’d never thought <\/p>\n
621
\n00:37:51,760 –> 00:37:54,680
\nabout before.
\nAnd in the commentary, this is <\/p>\n
622
\n00:37:54,680 –> 00:37:58,880
\nthe Christopher commentary on
\nthe On the Agora by the George <\/p>\n
623
\n00:37:58,880 –> 00:38:00,640
\nasks this question.
\nHe says, is it true? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:00,640 –> 00:38:03,240
\nAlso.
\nSo it was not good for man to be<\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:03,240 –> 00:38:05,080
\nalone, he says.
\nIs it true? <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:05,360 –> 00:38:10,200
\nIs it also true that it was not
\ngood for God to be alone? <\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:10,800 –> 00:38:12,480
\nCan we read something back into
\nthis? <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:13,280 –> 00:38:16,280
\nIf God reveals that it was not
\ngood for Adam to be alone, but <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:16,280 –> 00:38:19,960
\nthat he needed a companion,
\nsurely it was patterned or <\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:22,760
\nfigurative way of saying it’s
\nnot good for me to be alone. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:22,760 –> 00:38:26,480
\nI too must have a companion, he
\nsays. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:38:26,480 –> 00:38:29,920
\nLook at it another way.
\nIf our own observation, our own <\/p>\n
633
\n00:38:29,920 –> 00:38:33,680
\nexperience, shows us how
\nunsatisfactory life can be lived<\/p>\n
634
\n00:38:33,920 –> 00:38:37,040
\nentirely alone, with no regard
\nfor or fellowship with others, <\/p>\n
635
\n00:38:37,280 –> 00:38:40,680
\nand how much we need a we need
\ncompanionship, both personal and<\/p>\n
636
\n00:38:40,680 –> 00:38:42,400
\nspiritual, and sympathetic and
\nloving. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:38:42,880 –> 00:38:45,720
\nAnd if two, we are made in the
\nimage and likeness of God, then <\/p>\n
638
\n00:38:45,720 –> 00:38:49,040
\nreason backward.
\nIt’s not good for God himself to<\/p>\n
639
\n00:38:49,040 –> 00:38:51,600
\nbe alone.
\nSo if God made us, and we <\/p>\n
640
\n00:38:51,600 –> 00:38:54,840
\nreflect him, and we feel the
\nneed for companionship and <\/p>\n
641
\n00:38:54,840 –> 00:38:57,960
\nfellowship, then wouldn’t that
\ntell us a little bit about God <\/p>\n
642
\n00:38:57,960 –> 00:39:00,200
\nhimself?
\nThen he makes this very <\/p>\n
643
\n00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:06,120
\ninteresting, practical point on
\nthis same lesson he says on the <\/p>\n
644
\n00:39:06,120 –> 00:39:07,400
\nsame verse.
\nHe says. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:39:07,400 –> 00:39:10,240
\nI remember some years ago a
\nyoung sister to Bible class <\/p>\n
646
\n00:39:10,880 –> 00:39:15,400
\nasking Why does God love me?
\nThe questions, he said. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:15,400 –> 00:39:18,080
\nThe question passed with
\nperfunctory discussion, and I at<\/p>\n
648
\n00:39:18,080 –> 00:39:20,840
\nfirst dismissed it from my mind
\nas no great consequence. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:39:21,560 –> 00:39:23,960
\nBut then the question came back
\nto me again later, and it <\/p>\n
650
\n00:39:23,960 –> 00:39:25,960
\nsuddenly seemed to be of
\nenormous import. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:39:25,960 –> 00:39:30,080
\nWhy does God love me?
\nNot just the fact that he does <\/p>\n
652
\n00:39:30,080 –> 00:39:35,360
\nlove, or that he is love, but he
\nneeds someone, he says, but the <\/p>\n
653
\n00:39:35,360 –> 00:39:38,680
\nrationale behind it.
\nI finally came to the conclusion<\/p>\n
654
\n00:39:38,680 –> 00:39:43,400
\nthat God loves me because he
\nneeds someone to love and he <\/p>\n
655
\n00:39:43,400 –> 00:39:46,480
\nneeds someone to love him, and
\nthat somehow even the <\/p>\n
656
\n00:39:46,480 –> 00:39:49,480
\nomnipotence of the universe
\nwould be incomplete without the <\/p>\n
657
\n00:39:49,480 –> 00:39:52,240
\nlove freely given of his
\ncreation. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:39:52,240 –> 00:39:56,320
\nAnd then he talks about how this
\nties in with free will and he <\/p>\n
659
\n00:39:56,320 –> 00:39:58,000
\nsays this is what God is looking
\nfor. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:39:58,000 –> 00:40:00,680
\nAnd This is why he had to create
\nbeings like Adam and Eve with <\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:00,680 –> 00:40:04,360
\nthe potential to choose having
\nfree will and hence the <\/p>\n
662
\n00:40:04,360 –> 00:40:06,640
\npotential to disappoint him
\ngreatly. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:40:06,960 –> 00:40:09,520
\nBut also the potential and what
\na potential. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:40:10,200 –> 00:40:14,600
\nTo actually please him, I
\nthought this really, this really<\/p>\n
665
\n00:40:14,600 –> 00:40:17,600
\nchanged some of my thinking in
\nthis regard. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:40:18,880 –> 00:40:21,560
\nGod has this need.
\nThat’s the very reason he <\/p>\n
667
\n00:40:21,560 –> 00:40:24,720
\ncreated didn’t just create as a
\nproject, as a experiment. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:40:25,160 –> 00:40:31,280
\nHe created in his plan to have
\ncompanionship with his creation.<\/p>\n
669
\n00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:38,640
\nAnd if when I say need, we have
\nwhat we call existential needs, <\/p>\n
670
\n00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:40,480
\nthese are needs we could we
\nwouldn’t be able to live <\/p>\n
671
\n00:40:40,480 –> 00:40:43,040
\nwithout.
\nSo we have need for food and <\/p>\n
672
\n00:40:43,040 –> 00:40:44,760
\nwater.
\nGod doesn’t have existential <\/p>\n
673
\n00:40:44,760 –> 00:40:48,840
\nneeds, but we also have needs
\nfor companionship like Adam and <\/p>\n
674
\n00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:51,480
\nand fellowship with each other
\nand interaction with people. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:40:51,640 –> 00:40:54,880
\nThese are needs that we could we
\ncould live without them, but the<\/p>\n
676
\n00:40:54,880 –> 00:40:57,920
\nquality of our life would be
\ndiminished with if we didn’t <\/p>\n
677
\n00:40:57,920 –> 00:41:01,520
\nhave them.
\nAlso, we think of needs. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:41:01,520 –> 00:41:06,080
\nNeeds reflect who we are.
\nOur very being, in a sense, our <\/p>\n
679
\n00:41:06,120 –> 00:41:09,960
\nvery inner person, can be
\nreflected in a need. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:41:09,960 –> 00:41:13,240
\nWhat do I mean by that?
\nI’ll give you my wife, Susan. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:41:13,240 –> 00:41:14,640
\nMany of you, of course, know her
\nvery well. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:41:15,600 –> 00:41:17,760
\nSusan is one of these underdog
\npeople, right? <\/p>\n
683
\n00:41:17,760 –> 00:41:21,280
\nSo she always at the meeting.
\nIf she thinks anyone’s ever been<\/p>\n
684
\n00:41:22,120 –> 00:41:25,320
\nsort of either hard done by or
\nhave been oppressed in any way, <\/p>\n
685
\n00:41:25,320 –> 00:41:29,280
\nor anyone’s having, she just has
\na need that she has to get <\/p>\n
686
\n00:41:29,280 –> 00:41:31,360
\ninvolved.
\nIt’s just drives me crazy. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:41:31,680 –> 00:41:33,720
\nSometimes I say just settle down
\nthere, it’s going to be all <\/p>\n
688
\n00:41:33,720 –> 00:41:34,920
\nright now.
\nIt’s not our business. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:41:34,920 –> 00:41:37,840
\nWe don’t need to get involved.
\nBut she has something built into<\/p>\n
690
\n00:41:37,840 –> 00:41:40,840
\nher that she just has to say
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:41:40,840 –> 00:41:43,760
\nShe has to do something.
\nShe feels something about the <\/p>\n
692
\n00:41:43,760 –> 00:41:46,880
\nsituation, and it’s just part of
\nher very essence, her very <\/p>\n
693
\n00:41:46,880 –> 00:41:49,600
\ncharacter.
\nIt’s a it’s a need that I don’t <\/p>\n
694
\n00:41:49,600 –> 00:41:52,760
\nparticularly have.
\nI have high empathy, but not the<\/p>\n
695
\n00:41:52,760 –> 00:41:58,080
\nneed to just jump in and try and
\nhelp people who I feel have been<\/p>\n
696
\n00:41:59,560 –> 00:42:01,360
\nbadly treated or whatever the
\ncase might be. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:42:03,040 –> 00:42:04,480
\nAnother example is my my own
\ndad. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:42:04,840 –> 00:42:07,160
\nHe’s a, he’s a classic, you
\nknow, sick of talking about him,<\/p>\n
699
\n00:42:07,160 –> 00:42:09,400
\nbut he just turned 80 on
\nSaturday, so we just had a <\/p>\n
700
\n00:42:09,400 –> 00:42:13,520
\nlittle party for him.
\nBut dad’s a dad’s a fearless <\/p>\n
701
\n00:42:13,520 –> 00:42:18,120
\nsort of guy and when he worked
\nfor the state rail he used to <\/p>\n
702
\n00:42:18,120 –> 00:42:21,920
\nwork in, he worked between
\nRedfern and and and town hall on<\/p>\n
703
\n00:42:21,920 –> 00:42:25,680
\nthat inner city area, there on
\non on maintenance and things he <\/p>\n
704
\n00:42:25,680 –> 00:42:26,800
\ntold me.
\nHe told us once. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:42:26,800 –> 00:42:29,360
\nHe came out and told us and it
\nwas no big deal, but I was <\/p>\n
706
\n00:42:29,360 –> 00:42:31,400
\nimpressed, he said.
\nHe came home, it was back in the<\/p>\n
707
\n00:42:31,400 –> 00:42:34,880
\n80s and there was a a gang of
\nAsians. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:42:34,880 –> 00:42:38,200
\nIt was like a triad and they’ll
\nkicking some guy on the <\/p>\n
709
\n00:42:38,200 –> 00:42:39,880
\nplatform.
\nThis is like four or five in the<\/p>\n
710
\n00:42:39,880 –> 00:42:42,320
\nmorning when Dad used to work
\nand they’ll just laying into him<\/p>\n
711
\n00:42:42,320 –> 00:42:45,800
\nand kicking him and and Dad
\nsaid, oh it’s horrific. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:42:45,800 –> 00:42:49,320
\nI’ve just beating into this guy
\nand Dad walked over. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:42:49,320 –> 00:42:52,120
\nSo there’s commuters getting off
\ntrains and they’re just heading <\/p>\n
714
\n00:42:52,120 –> 00:42:54,920
\nup the stairs and no one wants
\nto get involved in anything like<\/p>\n
715
\n00:42:54,920 –> 00:42:57,480
\nthis.
\nBut Dad would have a dad’s got a<\/p>\n
716
\n00:42:57,480 –> 00:42:59,240
\nneed.
\nHe couldn’t just let that go. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:42:59,240 –> 00:43:02,400
\nSo Dad walked over and he said,
\ncome on fellas, he’s had enough.<\/p>\n
718
\n00:43:02,400 –> 00:43:03,960
\nHe’s had enough.
\nNow come on, move on. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:43:03,960 –> 00:43:06,560
\nHe’s had.
\nAnd eventually the the guy’s got<\/p>\n
720
\n00:43:06,560 –> 00:43:09,920
\na last kick in and kept walking.
\nAnd to me that’s like dad has <\/p>\n
721
\n00:43:09,920 –> 00:43:11,040
\nthis need.
\nHe could not. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:43:11,360 –> 00:43:13,720
\nI I would have just bolted up
\nthe stairs and saw, well, this <\/p>\n
723
\n00:43:13,720 –> 00:43:15,280
\nis the police’s job.
\nIt’s not my job. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:43:15,280 –> 00:43:19,200
\nBut he had a need that he had to
\nget involved at that point. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:43:19,200 –> 00:43:22,560
\nSo when I talk about needs, I’m
\nnot talking about needing to eat<\/p>\n
726
\n00:43:22,560 –> 00:43:24,160
\nor drink or whatever the case
\nmight be. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:26,640
\nIt’s something that comes from
\nour very essence, from our very <\/p>\n
728
\n00:43:26,640 –> 00:43:30,320
\nbeing of who we are and we have,
\nwe have those, those needs. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:43:30,920 –> 00:43:35,080
\nNow God has a character and a
\npersonality and he has he’s, <\/p>\n
730
\n00:43:35,920 –> 00:43:38,600
\nhe’s revealed that to us.
\nSo what can we learn about that <\/p>\n
731
\n00:43:39,040 –> 00:43:42,000
\nfrom him?
\nAnd he, I think it’s captured <\/p>\n
732
\n00:43:42,000 –> 00:43:46,720
\nnicely in Psalm 94 that says
\ndoes he who fashioned the ear <\/p>\n
733
\n00:43:46,720 –> 00:43:50,000
\nnot hear?
\nDoes he who form the eye not <\/p>\n
734
\n00:43:50,000 –> 00:43:52,520
\nsee?
\nAnd so based on that logic we <\/p>\n
735
\n00:43:52,520 –> 00:43:57,000
\ncould assume, does he who made
\nman us humans to long for <\/p>\n
736
\n00:43:57,000 –> 00:43:59,600
\ncompanionship and need
\ncompanionship and need <\/p>\n
737
\n00:44:00,120 –> 00:44:03,720
\nfellowship and interaction?
\nDoes he also have those similar <\/p>\n
738
\n00:44:03,720 –> 00:44:05,440
\nfeelings?
\nIt would it would logically <\/p>\n
739
\n00:44:05,440 –> 00:44:07,840
\nfollow I think, if we follow
\nthat through. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:44:09,240 –> 00:44:13,160
\nAnd as we said, God has revealed
\nhimself to us very clearly in <\/p>\n
741
\n00:44:13,160 –> 00:44:15,920
\nhis word, hasn’t he?
\nAnd probably the most, you know,<\/p>\n
742
\n00:44:16,120 –> 00:44:23,560
\nthe famous revelations of God.
\nXSA, Exodus 34. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:44:23,920 –> 00:44:25,440
\nSorry, I’ve written numbers 14.
\nI’ve got that wrong. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:44:25,480 –> 00:44:30,320
\nI think I’ve seen numbers 14.
\nBut I think Exodus 34 captures <\/p>\n
745
\n00:44:30,320 –> 00:44:33,080
\nit very well.
\nGod reveals himself as abundant.<\/p>\n
746
\n00:44:34,720 –> 00:44:37,880
\nYou know, sometimes we think
\nabout God being this balance. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:44:37,880 –> 00:44:41,880
\nWe go, oh, God’s balance is, is
\na perfect balance of goodness <\/p>\n
748
\n00:44:41,880 –> 00:44:44,520
\nand severity.
\nDo you reckon balance is the way<\/p>\n
749
\n00:44:44,520 –> 00:44:47,840
\nto think about that?
\nIt’s got balance between I mean <\/p>\n
750
\n00:44:48,080 –> 00:44:50,080
\nif you’re a parent you say, well
\nI’m balanced. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:44:50,520 –> 00:44:53,560
\nI like to build my kids 50% of
\nthe time and be nicer than 50% <\/p>\n
752
\n00:44:53,560 –> 00:44:54,760
\nof the time because I like to be
\nbalanced. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:44:54,800 –> 00:44:57,560
\nThat’s not quite that’s not
\nquite the concept is it? <\/p>\n
754
\n00:44:57,840 –> 00:45:00,480
\nWe don’t we we’ll discipline our
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:45:00,480 –> 00:45:02,800
\nWe can go, we’ll go there and
\nthen we’ve got the emotional <\/p>\n
756
\n00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:04,400
\nintelligence to do that when
\nit’s needed. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:45:04,400 –> 00:45:07,360
\nBut that’s not that’s not what
\nwe’re that’s not what not why we<\/p>\n
758
\n00:45:07,360 –> 00:45:10,720
\nhad children that’s not what
\nwe’re take joy and pleasure in <\/p>\n
759
\n00:45:10,720 –> 00:45:12,320
\nis it?
\nThat’s not who we really are. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:45:12,320 –> 00:45:17,280
\nWe we know it’s necessary, and I
\nthink the same applies to God. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:45:17,760 –> 00:45:21,400
\nWhen God reveals himself, he
\nsays I’m abundant in certain <\/p>\n
762
\n00:45:21,400 –> 00:45:24,840
\nqualities.
\nAnd these qualities, this idea <\/p>\n
763
\n00:45:24,840 –> 00:45:30,120
\nof abundance as we apply it to
\nGod, relate to these qualities <\/p>\n
764
\n00:45:30,120 –> 00:45:34,920
\nthat in the Hebrew are called
\nhesed and emit goodness and <\/p>\n
765
\n00:45:34,920 –> 00:45:39,000
\ntruth in the in the Authorized
\nversion, God says he’s abundant <\/p>\n
766
\n00:45:39,000 –> 00:45:41,720
\nin these qualities of goodness.
\nOf Hesed. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:45:43,160 –> 00:45:46,800
\nHesed is covenant love, as we’ll
\nsee in a second. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:45:46,840 –> 00:45:53,760
\nIt’s a love for your people, for
\nyours, just like a parent has <\/p>\n
769
\n00:45:53,760 –> 00:45:56,240
\nthis Hesed for their own
\nchildren and their own wife and <\/p>\n
770
\n00:45:56,240 –> 00:45:58,880
\ntheir own family.
\nIt’s a connection, love, It’s a <\/p>\n
771
\n00:45:59,080 –> 00:46:03,360
\nrelationship.
\nLove and emit is translated <\/p>\n
772
\n00:46:03,360 –> 00:46:06,720
\ntruth, but it’s not really
\npropositional truth as we think <\/p>\n
773
\n00:46:06,720 –> 00:46:09,600
\nabout it.
\nIt’s more being true, being <\/p>\n
774
\n00:46:10,120 –> 00:46:13,800
\nfaithful like a husband, being
\ntrue to their vows or and things<\/p>\n
775
\n00:46:13,800 –> 00:46:16,840
\nlike that.
\nSo God’s it’s their relationship<\/p>\n
776
\n00:46:16,840 –> 00:46:22,440
\nwords emit and hesed.
\nThese are relationship words, <\/p>\n
777
\n00:46:22,480 –> 00:46:26,320
\nconnection words with people and
\nit’s God’s not saying I I I <\/p>\n
778
\n00:46:27,320 –> 00:46:29,800
\ndisplay hesed and I display
\nemit. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:46:30,200 –> 00:46:33,160
\nHe says I am.
\nThis is what I this is what I <\/p>\n
780
\n00:46:33,160 –> 00:46:36,320
\nam.
\nMy very being is is <\/p>\n
781
\n00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:39,520
\nrelationship, love and goodness
\nand or mercy. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:46:39,880 –> 00:46:43,760
\nHowever it’s translated and this
\nfaithfulness to my connection to<\/p>\n
783
\n00:46:43,760 –> 00:46:47,680
\nmy to my relationship.
\nAnd so there’s many verses that <\/p>\n
784
\n00:46:47,680 –> 00:46:52,200
\npick this up.
\nMicah, seven, who is a God like <\/p>\n
785
\n00:46:52,200 –> 00:46:55,680
\nyou, pardoning iniquity and
\npassing over transgression <\/p>\n
786
\n00:46:55,680 –> 00:47:01,600
\nbecause he delights in mercy.
\nThat’s what God delights in <\/p>\n
787
\n00:47:01,600 –> 00:47:04,720
\nmercy.
\nSo that’s not like a 50% on bad <\/p>\n
788
\n00:47:04,720 –> 00:47:05,600
\n50%.
\nI do. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:10,640
\nGood God will bring judgement in
\nHis righteousness when it’s <\/p>\n
790
\n00:47:10,640 –> 00:47:12,520
\nnecessary.
\nBut he delights. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:47:12,520 –> 00:47:17,400
\nThat’s the the the weight of the
\nscale is on on mercy on his <\/p>\n
792
\n00:47:17,400 –> 00:47:19,320
\nchest, set on his loving
\nkindness. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:47:19,320 –> 00:47:24,720
\nThat’s where God sits.
\nYou think about like you know if<\/p>\n
794
\n00:47:24,720 –> 00:47:29,200
\nyour your kids ask you dad what
\nwas the what was the what what <\/p>\n
795
\n00:47:29,200 –> 00:47:30,800
\nmemories do you have of me as a
\nkid. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:47:31,360 –> 00:47:35,080
\nAnd you think Oh yeah.
\nRemember that time I builded you<\/p>\n
797
\n00:47:35,520 –> 00:47:38,960
\nwhen you were like a naughty kid
\nat Sunday school or remember <\/p>\n
798
\n00:47:38,960 –> 00:47:41,760
\nthat time I made you sit in the
\ncar when you were being cheeky. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:47:41,760 –> 00:47:44,800
\nYou know you don’t Remember
\nRemember those things do you You<\/p>\n
800
\n00:47:44,840 –> 00:47:47,080
\nknow I remember that time I
\ngrounded you for six weeks <\/p>\n
801
\n00:47:47,080 –> 00:47:49,240
\nbecause you broke the window at
\nhome or something. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:47:49,800 –> 00:47:52,440
\nThat’s not what you that’s not
\nwho you that’s not that’s not a <\/p>\n
803
\n00:47:52,440 –> 00:47:54,920
\nrelationship that.
\nYeah it was essential at the <\/p>\n
804
\n00:47:54,920 –> 00:47:57,120
\ntime.
\nThose of you know Johnny of know<\/p>\n
805
\n00:47:57,120 –> 00:48:04,320
\nof course it was essential but
\nit it it’s not I can’t even <\/p>\n
806
\n00:48:04,320 –> 00:48:06,480
\nremember doing that half the
\ntime because Susan mainly did <\/p>\n
807
\n00:48:06,480 –> 00:48:10,120
\nthat.
\nSo I just so that’s not what <\/p>\n
808
\n00:48:10,120 –> 00:48:13,920
\nwhat our relationship is made-up
\nof is it it’s it’s the the love <\/p>\n
809
\n00:48:13,920 –> 00:48:16,920
\nit’s the it’s the beautiful
\nmoments it’s the it’s the <\/p>\n
810
\n00:48:17,040 –> 00:48:20,360
\nchesed.
\nThe chesed that he Jews he said <\/p>\n
811
\n00:48:20,480 –> 00:48:22,880
\nget it right from the gestural
\nsound there. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:48:23,320 –> 00:48:25,280
\nGod says I have no pleasure in
\nthe death of the wicked. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:48:25,280 –> 00:48:26,680
\nYes.
\nThat has to happen in God’s <\/p>\n
814
\n00:48:26,680 –> 00:48:29,240
\nrighteousness.
\nThat’s that’s not who he is. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:48:29,240 –> 00:48:33,600
\nThat’s not what he is in a sense
\nthat it’s it’s it’s something <\/p>\n
816
\n00:48:33,840 –> 00:48:37,240
\nthat has to happen but it’s not.
\nGod said I’d rather they turn <\/p>\n
817
\n00:48:37,240 –> 00:48:40,840
\nfrom their way and lived That’s
\nreally what what God would would<\/p>\n
818
\n00:48:40,840 –> 00:48:48,320
\nlike this idea of he said
\ntranslated often loving kindness<\/p>\n
819
\n00:48:48,320 –> 00:48:52,320
\nin in the Old Testament emit
\nthis idea of truth or <\/p>\n
820
\n00:48:52,320 –> 00:48:54,400
\nfaithfulness as as strong as
\ndefines that there are <\/p>\n
821
\n00:48:54,400 –> 00:48:56,840
\ntrustworthiness it’s a
\nrelationship would have been <\/p>\n
822
\n00:48:56,880 –> 00:49:00,400
\nfaithful to your commitments in
\na relationship that’s that’s <\/p>\n
823
\n00:49:00,400 –> 00:49:02,960
\nwhat God is.
\nHe’s a Hebrew expert. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:49:02,960 –> 00:49:04,520
\nI’m not going to.
\nI’m running out of time. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:49:04,520 –> 00:49:08,400
\nSo we’re dwell on all these but
\nhe’s connecting Hesed. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:49:09,400 –> 00:49:13,760
\nYou know God loves the world,
\nbut Hesed’s particularly <\/p>\n
827
\n00:49:15,040 –> 00:49:18,200
\nrelevant to his actual people
\nthat he’s in relationship with. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:49:18,200 –> 00:49:21,360
\nThat’s his that’s a God and his
\npeople word. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:49:21,360 –> 00:49:23,120
\nI am your God and you’re my
\npeople. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:27,840
\nAnd Hesed is God’s love word,
\nhis kindness word compassion in <\/p>\n
831
\n00:49:27,840 –> 00:49:31,400
\nthat relationship.
\nAnd the Hebrew experts say it’s <\/p>\n
832
\n00:49:31,440 –> 00:49:34,880
\na covenant word.
\nThat’s what does this writer, he<\/p>\n
833
\n00:49:34,880 –> 00:49:36,560
\nsay.
\nIt constitutes the essence of a <\/p>\n
834
\n00:49:36,560 –> 00:49:38,360
\ncovenant.
\nIt’s at the very base of a <\/p>\n
835
\n00:49:38,360 –> 00:49:41,640
\ncovenant.
\nLook at these famous words from <\/p>\n
836
\n00:49:41,640 –> 00:49:44,640
\nExodus 34.
\nThe Lord passes by and he <\/p>\n
837
\n00:49:44,640 –> 00:49:48,240
\nproclaims Yahweh, Yahweh.
\nTwice. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:49:48,240 –> 00:49:51,280
\nHe says that this is, this is if
\nyou want to know me and what I’m<\/p>\n
839
\n00:49:51,280 –> 00:49:54,640
\nwhat I am, this is all that I
\nam. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:49:54,800 –> 00:49:57,160
\nWhat is God?
\nWhat is he, essentially? <\/p>\n
841
\n00:49:57,160 –> 00:50:01,440
\nAnd he’s very core.
\nGod declares himself as <\/p>\n
842
\n00:50:01,440 –> 00:50:05,960
\nmerciful, gracious,
\nlong-suffering, abundant in <\/p>\n
843
\n00:50:06,240 –> 00:50:09,640
\nhesed and imit.
\nThat’s what God is. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:50:10,000 –> 00:50:13,080
\nThat’s what he is.
\nWhat does he do though? <\/p>\n
845
\n00:50:13,520 –> 00:50:17,320
\nWhat does he act?
\nWell, he also He is hesed, but <\/p>\n
846
\n00:50:17,320 –> 00:50:19,800
\nhe also does hesed.
\nHe’s what does God do? <\/p>\n
847
\n00:50:20,000 –> 00:50:23,920
\nHe keeps hesed for thousands,
\nforgiving and equity and <\/p>\n
848
\n00:50:23,920 –> 00:50:29,960
\ntransgression of sins.
\nHe also does does things that <\/p>\n
849
\n00:50:29,960 –> 00:50:33,840
\nare negative in a sense where he
\nvisits iniquity on on people <\/p>\n
850
\n00:50:33,840 –> 00:50:35,640
\nthat are sinners.
\nThat’s what he does. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:50:35,720 –> 00:50:39,320
\nWhat he is his goodness and
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:50:39,320 –> 00:50:42,600
\nThat is what God is at his very
\ncore, his very essence. <\/p>\n
853
\n00:50:43,880 –> 00:50:47,680
\nAnd so the idea of the he said
\nGod’s God’s love connected to <\/p>\n
854
\n00:50:47,680 –> 00:50:51,480
\nhis faithfulness to his
\nrelationships is is is runs all <\/p>\n
855
\n00:50:51,480 –> 00:50:53,280
\nthrough scripture.
\nHe’s Exodus 20 verse six. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:50:53,280 –> 00:50:57,520
\nAnother covenant passage.
\nGod shows this covenant <\/p>\n
857
\n00:50:57,520 –> 00:51:00,880
\nfaithfulness is hesed as the
\ncentury Jewish Bible translates <\/p>\n
858
\n00:51:00,880 –> 00:51:04,560
\nit to 1000 generations of those
\nwho keep my commandments. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:51:04,560 –> 00:51:08,400
\nAnd this is this is who God is.
\nThis covenant faithfulness. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:51:10,320 –> 00:51:13,440
\nDeuteronomy 7 another covenant
\ncontext. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:51:13,440 –> 00:51:16,240
\nTherefore know that the Lord
\nyour God he is God, the faithful<\/p>\n
862
\n00:51:16,240 –> 00:51:19,040
\nGod who keeps covenant and
\nhesed. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:51:19,040 –> 00:51:23,320
\nSee the the Covenant and Hesed
\nlinked together for 1000 <\/p>\n
864
\n00:51:23,320 –> 00:51:27,360
\ngenerations as I 54 For the
\nmountains shall depart, and the <\/p>\n
865
\n00:51:27,360 –> 00:51:30,560
\nhills shall be removed, but my
\nHesed shall not depart from you,<\/p>\n
866
\n00:51:31,080 –> 00:51:33,840
\nnor shall my covenant of peace
\nbe removed. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:51:34,120 –> 00:51:37,240
\nConnection with covenant there.
\nAnd Hesed praise Yahweh, or you <\/p>\n
868
\n00:51:37,240 –> 00:51:40,680
\nGentiles Lord him, or you
\npeoples, for his Hesed is great <\/p>\n
869
\n00:51:40,680 –> 00:51:45,000
\ntowards us, and his emit the
\nemit of God is faithfulness <\/p>\n
870
\n00:51:45,000 –> 00:51:48,560
\nendures forever.
\nPraise the Lord, and it goes on,<\/p>\n
871
\n00:51:48,560 –> 00:51:52,080
\nand on and on.
\nIf that is the case, brothers <\/p>\n
872
\n00:51:52,080 –> 00:51:56,920
\nand sisters, that God
\nessentially is a being of <\/p>\n
873
\n00:51:56,920 –> 00:52:01,400
\nrelation, A relational being, a
\nbeing who wants to connect to <\/p>\n
874
\n00:52:01,440 –> 00:52:03,560
\nothers.
\nAnd maybe he, he’s created us <\/p>\n
875
\n00:52:03,560 –> 00:52:06,480
\nfor that very purpose, to have a
\nrelationship with his people, <\/p>\n
876
\n00:52:06,480 –> 00:52:10,120
\nwith his creation.
\nIt explains why there are verses<\/p>\n
877
\n00:52:10,120 –> 00:52:13,520
\nin the Old Testament
\nparticularly that talks about us<\/p>\n
878
\n00:52:13,520 –> 00:52:16,520
\ngiving God pleasure.
\nNow I want you to think about <\/p>\n
879
\n00:52:16,520 –> 00:52:18,480
\nthat.
\nIt’s easy to read and go, yeah, <\/p>\n
880
\n00:52:18,480 –> 00:52:20,960
\nwe give pleasure to God.
\nThink about this. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:52:21,000 –> 00:52:27,320
\nYou can give pleasure.
\nThat means you can change the <\/p>\n
882
\n00:52:27,320 –> 00:52:31,960
\nstate of the emotional state of
\nthe being that created this <\/p>\n
883
\n00:52:31,960 –> 00:52:35,600
\nuniverse.
\nYou can give pleasure to the <\/p>\n
884
\n00:52:36,040 –> 00:52:38,200
\narchitect and creator of this
\nuniverse. <\/p>\n
885
\n00:52:38,640 –> 00:52:42,520
\nI mean, that is phenomenal.
\nThat is almost hard to believe. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:52:42,520 –> 00:52:46,480
\nBut it’s true.
\nAgain, it it feeds back into the<\/p>\n
887
\n00:52:46,480 –> 00:52:49,040
\nevidence, isn’t it?
\nThat God is a relational being <\/p>\n
888
\n00:52:49,040 –> 00:52:55,080
\nwho delights, wants, needs,
\nwhatever words you want to use <\/p>\n
889
\n00:52:55,080 –> 00:52:57,720
\nthere.
\nBut it’s a God of connection, a <\/p>\n
890
\n00:52:57,720 –> 00:53:00,320
\nGod of covenant.
\nHe doesn’t take delight as <\/p>\n
891
\n00:53:00,320 –> 00:53:02,760
\nsomeone for what he says in the
\nstrength of the horse, the <\/p>\n
892
\n00:53:02,760 –> 00:53:06,760
\ntechnology, the all those
\nthings. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:53:06,760 –> 00:53:10,080
\nHe takes no pleasure in the legs
\nof the success of humans in that<\/p>\n
894
\n00:53:10,320 –> 00:53:12,040
\nin in the sense of achievement
\nand success. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:53:13,120 –> 00:53:15,840
\nThe Lord takes pleasure in those
\nwho fear Him, those who <\/p>\n
896
\n00:53:16,560 –> 00:53:21,120
\nacknowledge his existence to
\nacknowledge him and count him as<\/p>\n
897
\n00:53:21,120 –> 00:53:26,280
\ntheir God, and those who hope in
\nhis hesed, those who are linked <\/p>\n
898
\n00:53:26,280 –> 00:53:29,360
\nto him in a relationship.
\nAnd he’s He said God takes <\/p>\n
899
\n00:53:29,360 –> 00:53:31,920
\npleasure in that.
\nPsalm 149. <\/p>\n
900
\n00:53:32,080 –> 00:53:36,880
\nThe Lord takes pleasure in his
\npeople, His people. <\/p>\n
901
\n00:53:36,880 –> 00:53:40,880
\nPeople can give pleasure to the
\ncreator of this incredible <\/p>\n
902
\n00:53:40,880 –> 00:53:45,240
\nuniverse and that.
\nThat’s just mind blowing when <\/p>\n
903
\n00:53:45,240 –> 00:53:48,560
\nyou think about it, but it makes
\nsense. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:53:49,800 –> 00:53:53,600
\nWe get pleasure from our
\nrelationships, from connections <\/p>\n
905
\n00:53:53,600 –> 00:53:58,000
\nto people.
\nWhy then would not God extract <\/p>\n
906
\n00:53:58,000 –> 00:54:00,080
\npleasure from his relationships
\nwith us? <\/p>\n
907
\n00:54:00,880 –> 00:54:06,440
\nAnd so we are his offspring.
\nAs Paul says in Acts 17, God <\/p>\n
908
\n00:54:07,040 –> 00:54:09,000
\ntakes pleasure from our
\nconnection with us. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:54:10,040 –> 00:54:12,720
\nAnd here’s the flip side, and
\nthis is where it really is <\/p>\n
910
\n00:54:12,760 –> 00:54:16,520
\npowerful.
\nIt’s a win win relationship, <\/p>\n
911
\n00:54:17,120 –> 00:54:20,720
\nvery rare in our world.
\nIn a sense only in, you know, <\/p>\n
912
\n00:54:20,720 –> 00:54:23,320
\nmarriage and in close family
\nconnections and close <\/p>\n
913
\n00:54:23,320 –> 00:54:26,440
\nfriendships you have a win win
\nsituation where the relationship<\/p>\n
914
\n00:54:27,920 –> 00:54:32,400
\nbenefits both parties.
\nIn an absolute sense, God gets <\/p>\n
915
\n00:54:32,400 –> 00:54:38,440
\npleasure from this relationship
\nand we get pleasure, we get joy <\/p>\n
916
\n00:54:39,400 –> 00:54:43,600
\nfrom that relationship.
\nAnd so the two, the two partners<\/p>\n
917
\n00:54:44,080 –> 00:54:46,920
\nhere, the two potential
\npartners, the two relational <\/p>\n
918
\n00:54:47,480 –> 00:54:50,640
\npartners, get incredible
\nbenefit. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:54:50,640 –> 00:54:54,800
\nBoth sides, even the more
\npowerful side, gets benefit from<\/p>\n
920
\n00:54:55,240 –> 00:54:57,000
\nthe connection from the kindred
\nspirits. <\/p>\n
921
\n00:54:57,000 –> 00:54:59,200
\nAnd I’ll quickly flick when out
\nof time, so I’ll flick through <\/p>\n
922
\n00:54:59,200 –> 00:55:03,440
\nthese verses, but so many verses
\ntalk about this presence of God <\/p>\n
923
\n00:55:03,440 –> 00:55:05,880
\nand have an emotional connection
\nto it. <\/p>\n
924
\n00:55:06,440 –> 00:55:10,080
\nYou’ll show me the path of life
\nin your presence is fullness of <\/p>\n
925
\n00:55:10,080 –> 00:55:12,160
\njoy at your right hand of
\npleasures. <\/p>\n
926
\n00:55:12,160 –> 00:55:15,720
\nForevermore, let us come before
\nHis presence with Thanksgiving, <\/p>\n
927
\n00:55:15,880 –> 00:55:17,440
\nwith the joyful noise, with
\nPsalm. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:55:17,640 –> 00:55:19,640
\nSo the Lord, with gladness
\ncoming before his presence, with<\/p>\n
929
\n00:55:19,640 –> 00:55:23,000
\nsinging, righteousness and
\njustice of the foundation of <\/p>\n
930
\n00:55:23,000 –> 00:55:26,320
\nyour throne, hesed and emit, go
\nbefore your presence before your<\/p>\n
931
\n00:55:26,320 –> 00:55:28,160
\nface.
\nBlessed are the people who know <\/p>\n
932
\n00:55:28,160 –> 00:55:31,640
\nthe joyful sound they walk, Oh
\nLord, in the light of your <\/p>\n
933
\n00:55:31,640 –> 00:55:35,000
\ncountenance of your presence in
\nyour name, they rejoice all the <\/p>\n
934
\n00:55:35,000 –> 00:55:36,680
\nday long.
\nLook at these rejoicing <\/p>\n
935
\n00:55:36,680 –> 00:55:41,160
\npresence, connections.
\nWill the Lord show us any good <\/p>\n
936
\n00:55:41,160 –> 00:55:44,640
\nlift up, put a lot of your
\ncountenance upon us, your <\/p>\n
937
\n00:55:44,640 –> 00:55:46,760
\nPresence.
\nYou’ll put gladness in our <\/p>\n
938
\n00:55:46,760 –> 00:55:50,480
\nhearts, and so forth.
\nAnd so, just to finish up, <\/p>\n
939
\n00:55:50,480 –> 00:55:55,360
\nbrothers and sisters want us to
\nthink about the presence of God.<\/p>\n
940
\n00:55:55,360 –> 00:55:58,280
\nRemember, in our first session
\nwe said the the Presence, the <\/p>\n
941
\n00:55:58,280 –> 00:56:01,520
\nWord for Presence.
\nThis word, pinayim, is also <\/p>\n
942
\n00:56:01,520 –> 00:56:05,120
\ntranslated face and used to
\ndescribe the face of God or the <\/p>\n
943
\n00:56:05,120 –> 00:56:07,160
\nface of a person.
\nSo there is something in the <\/p>\n
944
\n00:56:07,160 –> 00:56:11,360
\nHebrew concept of the face,
\nsomebody’s face and somebody’s <\/p>\n
945
\n00:56:11,360 –> 00:56:13,000
\npresence.
\nAnd we we sort of use that. <\/p>\n
946
\n00:56:13,000 –> 00:56:17,040
\nWe say get out of my face or
\nlet’s have some FaceTime, let’s <\/p>\n
947
\n00:56:17,040 –> 00:56:19,440
\nget together face to face and
\ntalk about this. <\/p>\n
948
\n00:56:19,440 –> 00:56:22,080
\nSo there is something special
\nabout being in someone’s <\/p>\n
949
\n00:56:22,080 –> 00:56:23,840
\npresence, in their in their very
\nface. <\/p>\n
950
\n00:56:24,320 –> 00:56:26,920
\nEven these little things that
\npeople have on their phone <\/p>\n
951
\n00:56:26,920 –> 00:56:29,680
\nmessages are called emojis.
\nThere’s an emotional, there’s <\/p>\n
952
\n00:56:29,680 –> 00:56:36,200
\nemotional emotion conveyed in
\nthese emojis, isn’t there? <\/p>\n
953
\n00:56:36,280 –> 00:56:38,280
\nIn these faces where they’re
\nsmiling, whether they’re sad, <\/p>\n
954
\n00:56:38,280 –> 00:56:43,280
\nwhether they’re happy.
\nSo the face communicates a lot <\/p>\n
955
\n00:56:43,280 –> 00:56:49,880
\nof a lot of emotion.
\nThere’s a lot of psalms and a <\/p>\n
956
\n00:56:49,880 –> 00:56:52,240
\nlot of references in the Old
\nTestament about seeking God’s <\/p>\n
957
\n00:56:52,240 –> 00:56:56,360
\nface, about wanting to be in his
\nface, if you like, in God’s <\/p>\n
958
\n00:56:56,360 –> 00:57:01,040
\npresence, he Psalm 69.
\nDon’t hide your face from your <\/p>\n
959
\n00:57:01,040 –> 00:57:04,200
\nservant Psalm 27.
\nWhen I when you said seek my <\/p>\n
960
\n00:57:04,200 –> 00:57:07,840
\nface, my heart said to you your
\nface, Lord, I will seek. <\/p>\n
961
\n00:57:07,840 –> 00:57:10,280
\nDo not hide your face from me as
\nthis. <\/p>\n
962
\n00:57:10,720 –> 00:57:13,240
\nIt reminds us of Acts 17, which
\nwe talked about earlier on. <\/p>\n
963
\n00:57:13,240 –> 00:57:17,040
\nIsn’t it that God says, I
\ncreated you so that you can feel<\/p>\n
964
\n00:57:17,040 –> 00:57:19,320
\nfor me and seek for me and touch
\nme? <\/p>\n
965
\n00:57:19,920 –> 00:57:22,080
\nGod wants that.
\nGod wants that connection with <\/p>\n
966
\n00:57:22,080 –> 00:57:24,520
\nhis people and it just runs all
\nthe way through the Bible. <\/p>\n
967
\n00:57:25,120 –> 00:57:27,680
\nListen to the people who know
\nthe joyful sound they walk in, a<\/p>\n
968
\n00:57:27,680 –> 00:57:29,120
\nlot of your countenance,
\netcetera. <\/p>\n
969
\n00:57:30,000 –> 00:57:33,560
\nSo I might just finish up here
\nwith a just a few minutes <\/p>\n
970
\n00:57:33,560 –> 00:57:36,480
\nthinking about this beautiful
\npart of the scripture that <\/p>\n
971
\n00:57:36,560 –> 00:57:39,760
\nNathan read for us tonight.
\nTowards the end of #6, there’s <\/p>\n
972
\n00:57:39,760 –> 00:57:43,560
\nthis beautiful set of stands as
\nif you like this, this, this, <\/p>\n
973
\n00:57:44,360 –> 00:57:47,520
\nthis priestly benedictional
\nblessing that was given to the <\/p>\n
974
\n00:57:47,520 –> 00:57:51,640
\npeople, blessing them and
\nbringing God’s presence into <\/p>\n
975
\n00:57:51,640 –> 00:57:53,640
\ntheir life.
\nLet’s just let’s think about <\/p>\n
976
\n00:57:53,640 –> 00:57:57,480
\nthis and just in the whole
\ncontext of God’s presence. <\/p>\n
977
\n00:57:57,480 –> 00:58:02,080
\nRemember Hebrews 10.
\nThe boldness we can have in <\/p>\n
978
\n00:58:02,080 –> 00:58:06,360
\nGod’s presence, the pluriphoria,
\nthe full assurance of God’s <\/p>\n
979
\n00:58:06,360 –> 00:58:11,040
\npresence, the ability to draw
\nnear to God. <\/p>\n
980
\n00:58:11,040 –> 00:58:15,440
\nAnd here it is in AI think lived
\nout in a very and expressed in a<\/p>\n
981
\n00:58:15,440 –> 00:58:18,640
\nvery practical and beautiful and
\na very emotional way. <\/p>\n
982
\n00:58:22,440 –> 00:58:24,720
\nWhat can we say about this
\nsection of scripture? <\/p>\n
983
\n00:58:24,720 –> 00:58:29,040
\nWell, let’s make a few
\nobservations. 1 You’ll notice <\/p>\n
984
\n00:58:29,040 –> 00:58:32,320
\nhow each of the stanzas begins
\nwith the name of God. <\/p>\n
985
\n00:58:32,320 –> 00:58:35,440
\nYahweh.
\nYahweh Bless you. <\/p>\n
986
\n00:58:35,440 –> 00:58:36,600
\nYahweh.
\nMake his face. <\/p>\n
987
\n00:58:36,600 –> 00:58:37,760
\nYahweh.
\nLift up his counter. <\/p>\n
988
\n00:58:37,760 –> 00:58:40,120
\nSo it’s very personal, isn’t it?
\nIt’s God’s. <\/p>\n
989
\n00:58:40,480 –> 00:58:44,720
\nGod’s placing his own name here,
\nand you normally tell your name <\/p>\n
990
\n00:58:44,720 –> 00:58:46,520
\nto people that you want a
\nrelationship with, don’t you? <\/p>\n
991
\n00:58:46,520 –> 00:58:49,080
\nYou say my name is Darren or
\nwhatever, and you’re now <\/p>\n
992
\n00:58:49,200 –> 00:58:52,920
\nstarting this connection.
\nIf it’s someone you know, you’re<\/p>\n
993
\n00:58:52,920 –> 00:58:55,480
\nnot going to see someone selling
\nyou a ticket or a sandwich. <\/p>\n
994
\n00:58:55,480 –> 00:58:56,960
\nYou don’t tell them your name
\nnecessarily. <\/p>\n
995
\n00:58:56,960 –> 00:58:59,000
\nBecause there’s no, you’re not
\ngoing to have a relationship <\/p>\n
996
\n00:58:59,000 –> 00:59:01,080
\nwith them.
\nSo God is saying, I want to have<\/p>\n
997
\n00:59:01,080 –> 00:59:02,840
\na relationship.
\nI’m giving you my name so we can<\/p>\n
998
\n00:59:02,840 –> 00:59:06,560
\ntalk together.
\nAnd so it’s anchored in who <\/p>\n
999
\n00:59:06,560 –> 00:59:09,640
\nYahweh actually is.
\nIt’s anchored in his very person<\/p>\n
1000
\n00:59:10,880 –> 00:59:14,520
\nNotice and particularly those of
\nyou who have the King James <\/p>\n
1001
\n00:59:14,520 –> 00:59:17,640
\nBible, of course will see that
\nthe blessing relates to thee. <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:59:17,640 –> 00:59:20,280
\nThe Lord blessed thee, which is
\nthe singular in the the Old <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:59:20,280 –> 00:59:22,560
\nEnglish.
\nAnd and this is, this is a <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:59:22,560 –> 00:59:26,080
\nsingular concept which is, which
\nis very fascinating, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:59:26,520 –> 00:59:29,720
\nSometimes we we shy away from
\ntalking about ourselves in the <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:59:29,720 –> 00:59:31,840
\ncontext of God’s blessing.
\nAnd we don’t. <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:59:31,840 –> 00:59:36,240
\nWe’d like to sort of make it a
\nmore collective phrase but hear <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:59:36,240 –> 00:59:41,360
\nthe blessings, individual
\npersonal Yahweh bless you <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:59:42,040 –> 00:59:44,160
\nDarren, you know this is me.
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:59:44,160 –> 00:59:46,480
\nMake his face shine upon you and
\nbe gracious to you. <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:59:47,160 –> 00:59:49,880
\nYahweh lift up his countenance
\nupon you and give you peace. <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:59:49,880 –> 00:59:55,120
\nIt’s it’s a personal blessing
\nfrom Yahweh personally to you <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:59:55,560 –> 01:00:00,440
\npersonally.
\nNotice the repetition there of <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:00:00,440 –> 01:00:02,680
\nthe of the of the presence of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:00:02,680 –> 01:00:05,120
\nSo it’s translated in this is I
\nthink new King James. <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:00:05,120 –> 01:00:08,840
\nHere it’s translated his face.
\nThis means it’s Pin AM, it’s <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:00:08,840 –> 01:00:11,280
\npresence.
\nAnd in the third stance there, <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:00:11,280 –> 01:00:14,480
\nit’s translated countenance.
\nIn that translation others have <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:00:14,480 –> 01:00:19,120
\nface again, but it’s presence,
\nit’s Pin AM, it’s God’s presence<\/p>\n
1020
\n01:00:19,120 –> 01:00:20,960
\nthat permeates this little
\nblessing. <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:00:21,000 –> 01:00:24,120
\nIt’s about God blessing you with
\nhim. <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:00:24,920 –> 01:00:29,760
\nHe is the blessing, in a sense.
\nNotice that part of the <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:00:29,760 –> 01:00:31,280
\nblessing.
\nThe second stands, that there is<\/p>\n
1024
\n01:00:31,280 –> 01:00:35,040
\nGod being gracious to you.
\nThis is a beautiful word, the <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:00:35,040 –> 01:00:37,520
\nword gracious.
\nIf you look up strong <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:00:37,520 –> 01:00:41,880
\nconcordance, it means to bend
\ndown or stoop in kindness to an <\/p>\n
1027
\n01:00:41,880 –> 01:00:44,200
\ninferior.
\nIt’s like a little child has <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:00:44,760 –> 01:00:47,600
\nfallen off their scooter or the
\nskateboard and they’re on the <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:00:47,600 –> 01:00:48,960
\nground and they’ve cut their
\nleg. <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:00:49,200 –> 01:00:52,640
\nAnd you, as the adult kneel
\ndown, you stoop down behind <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:00:52,720 –> 01:00:55,880
\nbeside them and you.
\nAnd that stooping brings comfort<\/p>\n
1032
\n01:00:55,880 –> 01:01:00,160
\ninto their, into their presence,
\nthat your presence gives comfort<\/p>\n
1033
\n01:01:00,160 –> 01:01:01,880
\nto their presence and there’s a
\nconnection there. <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:01:01,880 –> 01:01:05,720
\nAnd they, they feel thankful and
\nand reassured that you’re there.<\/p>\n
1035
\n01:01:05,720 –> 01:01:07,800
\nAnd so God has stooped down into
\nour life. <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:01:08,280 –> 01:01:11,880
\nOf course the greater in this
\nrelationship by, you know, a <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:01:11,880 –> 01:01:15,840
\nbillion trillion in million
\ntimes is not even a you can’t <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:01:15,840 –> 01:01:19,880
\neven define that.
\nBut it’s still a real <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:01:19,880 –> 01:01:23,560
\nrelationship and he Stoops down
\nto connect with the the lesser <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:01:23,560 –> 01:01:27,120
\nparty in this relationship and
\nnotice where it leads us. <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:01:28,440 –> 01:01:35,000
\nYahweh lift up his presence upon
\nyou and give you Shalom, give <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:01:35,000 –> 01:01:40,360
\nyou peace and this word Shalom
\nis such a comprehensive and and <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:01:41,400 –> 01:01:42,960
\nholistic word.
\nIt’s so beautiful. <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:01:42,960 –> 01:01:47,240
\nIt’s not just the absence of
\nfighting or or just a quiet <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:01:47,240 –> 01:01:50,360
\ntime.
\nThis Shalom has it at its very <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:01:50,360 –> 01:01:55,080
\ncore, the idea of even welfare
\nand and healing and tranquility <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:01:55,080 –> 01:01:58,240
\nand contentment and peace in the
\ntrue sense. <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:01:58,240 –> 01:02:02,320
\nSo there’s a there’s an
\nemotional power that comes from <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:02:02,320 –> 01:02:04,720
\nbeing in the presence of God.
\nThis is the core of the <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:02:04,720 –> 01:02:06,600
\nblessing.
\nThe blessing isn’t just an <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:02:06,600 –> 01:02:10,480
\nintellectual, academic thing.
\nThere’s a power that comes from <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:02:10,480 –> 01:02:12,440
\nbeing in the very presence of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:02:15,840 –> 01:02:18,360
\nI just want us to finish up by
\nfocusing on this phrase. <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:02:18,360 –> 01:02:22,280
\nShine.
\nYahweh, bless you and keep you. <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:02:22,920 –> 01:02:25,560
\nYahweh make His face His
\npresence shine. <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:02:26,640 –> 01:02:29,120
\nIt’s an interesting idea in the
\nHebrew. <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:02:29,120 –> 01:02:32,360
\nIn the Hebrew here, the word
\nshine means to light up, to be <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:02:32,360 –> 01:02:34,880
\nlit up.
\nIf you look at the lexicon. <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:02:34,880 –> 01:02:40,080
\nSo in some way, God shining on
\nyou, His presence, it’s shining,<\/p>\n
1060
\n01:02:40,440 –> 01:02:44,920
\nmay not be physically
\ndiscernible to our optical <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:02:44,920 –> 01:02:48,080
\nreceptors, but there’s God is
\nshining, His presence upon us. <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:02:48,560 –> 01:02:52,240
\nAnd of course, building to this
\nword, shine is an idiom. <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:02:54,360 –> 01:03:00,160
\nGod isn’t literally shining in
\nthat sense, but He’s shining <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:03:00,160 –> 01:03:01,800
\nsomething.
\nThere’s something coming from <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:03:01,800 –> 01:03:08,200
\nGod into our into our presence.
\nAnd the idiom and how it’s using<\/p>\n
1066
\n01:03:08,800 –> 01:03:10,320
\nHebrew and other parts of the
\nBible. <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:03:10,320 –> 01:03:13,840
\nThe idiom here of shine is the
\nidea of smiling. <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:03:14,880 –> 01:03:19,960
\nGod is smiling upon you.
\nHis face is smiling. <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:03:20,480 –> 01:03:23,760
\nAnd we we use this idiom even in
\nour own life today. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:03:23,760 –> 01:03:25,920
\nWe talk about someone having a
\nbeaming smile. <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:03:26,680 –> 01:03:29,680
\nWell, there’s not really light
\nbeaming from someone’s face, but<\/p>\n
1072
\n01:03:29,960 –> 01:03:32,760
\nwe we use that idiom.
\nSomeone has a glowing smile. <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:03:33,080 –> 01:03:35,120
\nSomeone has a radiant smile.
\nIt’s the same idea. <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:03:35,120 –> 01:03:38,240
\nThere’s some radiate something
\nradiating from the face. <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:03:38,720 –> 01:03:41,120
\nHer smile lights up the room.
\nYou know, you’ve got a little <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:03:41,400 –> 01:03:45,280
\ngorgeous little granddaughter
\nand her smile just lights up the<\/p>\n
1077
\n01:03:45,280 –> 01:03:48,160
\nroom or lights up the place.
\nWe use that idiom ourselves. <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:03:48,160 –> 01:03:52,680
\nSo it’s it’s it’s quite
\nunderstandable in that sense. <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:03:53,840 –> 01:03:56,000
\nThere’s something amazing about
\na smile. <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:03:56,000 –> 01:03:59,680
\nWhen you think about it.
\nThe smile is a dynamic <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:03:59,680 –> 01:04:02,760
\nphenomenon that is hard to
\ndescribe because what actually <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:04:02,760 –> 01:04:04,640
\nis it?
\nWhat is a smile? <\/p>\n
1083
\n01:04:04,640 –> 01:04:08,920
\nIt’s just muscles.
\nIt’s just my face now and my <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:04:08,920 –> 01:04:09,960
\nface now.
\nMy face. <\/p>\n
1085
\n01:04:10,360 –> 01:04:12,240
\nIt’s just the movement of some
\nmuscles. <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:04:12,520 –> 01:04:15,520
\nThat’s all that’s happening.
\nMuscles moving the eyes don’t <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:04:15,520 –> 01:04:17,920
\nreally shine anymore.
\nThey seem to. <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:04:18,000 –> 01:04:21,560
\nBut something magical happens in
\nyour eyes. <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:04:22,960 –> 01:04:25,600
\nBut it’s just muscle movement.
\nIt’s a it’s a little miracle, <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:04:25,600 –> 01:04:26,800
\nisn’t it?
\nA smile’s a little miracle, a <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:04:26,800 –> 01:04:30,600
\nlittle reflection of God.
\nBut think about what the smile <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:04:30,600 –> 01:04:33,440
\ndoes.
\nIt it draws people to you. <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:04:33,440 –> 01:04:37,040
\nWhen someone smiles and you’re
\nin a crowd and they smile, <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:04:37,480 –> 01:04:39,520
\nthere’s an attraction, there’s
\nyou’re drawn to that person. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:04:39,520 –> 01:04:41,840
\nThere’s something lovely about a
\nsmile. <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:04:42,520 –> 01:04:45,000
\nIt’s also contagious.
\nWhen someone smiles at you, you,<\/p>\n
1097
\n01:04:45,480 –> 01:04:48,400
\nyou, you smile back.
\nUsually it makes you smile. <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:04:48,400 –> 01:04:52,480
\nEven if you’re not feeling the
\nbest you, you smile and you know<\/p>\n
1099
\n01:04:52,480 –> 01:04:55,680
\nour capitalist world knows that.
\nAnd they train the McDonald’s <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:04:55,680 –> 01:04:58,960
\ngirls to smile at you.
\nI’m happy for other reasons, but<\/p>\n
1101
\n01:04:58,960 –> 01:05:01,400
\nbut also the smile’s nice.
\nThe smile’s nice as well. <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:05:03,040 –> 01:05:05,160
\nSmile is a gift as well.
\nWhen you smile at someone, <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:05:05,160 –> 01:05:06,640
\nyou’re giving.
\nIt’s a giving. <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:05:06,640 –> 01:05:09,000
\nIt’s a beautiful thing and
\nyou’re giving something to <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:05:09,000 –> 01:05:13,440
\nsomebody and it’s also
\ntransformative. <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:05:13,840 –> 01:05:18,000
\nA smile transforms the
\natmosphere, the situation. <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:05:18,360 –> 01:05:22,040
\nIt can make a tense situation,
\nawkward situation better. <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:05:22,040 –> 01:05:26,880
\nA smile transforms and changes
\nthe your state of mind and those<\/p>\n
1109
\n01:05:27,120 –> 01:05:30,520
\nwith you as well.
\nIt lifts your emotions. <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:05:31,200 –> 01:05:36,080
\nIt can give you a dopamine hit
\nand raise your spirit. <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:05:36,080 –> 01:05:39,360
\nIt can spark off endorphins in
\nyour in your brain. <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:05:39,360 –> 01:05:42,520
\nA smile is a very powerful thing
\nand yet it’s just muscles on <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:05:42,520 –> 01:05:45,560
\nyour face that are that are that
\nare moving and a positive smile <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:05:45,560 –> 01:05:49,840
\ncan surge through your body.
\nSome of the some of the dynamic <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:05:49,840 –> 01:05:52,760
\nBible translations have picked
\nup the idiom and translated it. <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:05:52,760 –> 01:05:55,840
\nNot not being literally they’re
\npicking up the the idiom behind <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:05:55,840 –> 01:05:57,920
\nthe word.
\nSo the the New Living <\/p>\n
1118
\n01:05:57,920 –> 01:06:01,440
\ntranslations got May the Lord
\nsmile on you, the Nirv says may <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:06:01,440 –> 01:06:05,360
\nthe Lord smile on you, good word
\nBible, the Lord smile on you, <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:06:05,360 –> 01:06:06,960
\nthe message got God smile on you
\nas well. <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:06:06,960 –> 01:06:08,800
\nAnd they’re not wrong.
\nThey’re not technically <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:06:09,400 –> 01:06:11,840
\ntranslating the word, but
\nthey’re not wrong in the sense <\/p>\n
1123
\n01:06:11,840 –> 01:06:17,960
\nof the idiom is a smile.
\nSo what do we what do we what do<\/p>\n
1124
\n01:06:17,960 –> 01:06:19,680
\nwe got here?
\nWhat have we been told? <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:06:20,800 –> 01:06:24,200
\nThe blessing of the blessing,
\nthe priestly blessing that we <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:06:24,200 –> 01:06:28,200
\nhave, particularly now under the
\nnew covenant, this blessing <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:06:28,520 –> 01:06:33,880
\nramps up big time, doesn’t it?
\nOur high priest is so superior <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:06:34,000 –> 01:06:36,800
\nthan the priest giving these
\nblessings under the old <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:06:36,800 –> 01:06:42,160
\ncovenant.
\nThe blessing says, Yahweh, be <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:06:42,160 –> 01:06:44,640
\nwith you.
\nAnd we’ve seen through our study<\/p>\n
1131
\n01:06:44,640 –> 01:06:46,440
\nthat he actually is with us,
\nisn’t he? <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:06:46,440 –> 01:06:49,880
\nHe’s with us.
\nI think we laid out the evidence<\/p>\n
1133
\n01:06:49,880 –> 01:06:53,760
\nfor that reasonably strongly.
\nHe’s with us regardless of the <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:06:53,760 –> 01:06:55,960
\ncircumstances.
\nYahweh is with us, the Lord be <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:06:55,960 –> 01:06:59,080
\nwith us.
\nHe’s gracious unto us in the way<\/p>\n
1136
\n01:06:59,080 –> 01:07:02,200
\nHe’s forgiven us our sins,
\ndeemed us righteous, all those <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:07:02,200 –> 01:07:05,680
\nthings that we’ve talked about.
\nHe’s blessed us, brothers and <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:07:05,680 –> 01:07:10,480
\nsisters, with his presence in a
\nrelational sense through the New<\/p>\n
1139
\n01:07:10,480 –> 01:07:14,560
\nCovenant, but also in the sense
\nthat He’s spatially with us in <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:07:14,560 –> 01:07:19,000
\nour life and that should, if we
\nthink about the reality of that <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:07:19,000 –> 01:07:23,360
\nand make that real, brings
\npeace, brings Shalom. <\/p>\n
1142
\n01:07:23,800 –> 01:07:26,480
\nI can’t put it any better than
\nnumber six. <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:07:26,600 –> 01:07:30,920
\nIt’s Shalom that comes from the
\npresence of God in its absolute <\/p>\n
1144
\n01:07:31,240 –> 01:07:36,120
\nsense.
\nSo there’s a connection to the <\/p>\n
1145
\n01:07:36,120 –> 01:07:39,080
\nsmile of God and his face
\nshining in salvation. <\/p>\n
1146
\n01:07:39,200 –> 01:07:41,200
\nHaven’t got time to flesh all
\nthese out now, but I just want <\/p>\n
1147
\n01:07:41,200 –> 01:07:43,520
\nto take us to the end of the
\nstory, which of course is <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:07:43,520 –> 01:07:47,200
\nRevelation 22.
\nAnd there’s some interesting <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:07:47,200 –> 01:07:53,520
\nlittle verses in chapter 22 and
\none of them is is here in verses<\/p>\n
1150
\n01:07:53,560 –> 01:07:56,600
\nverse four it says, and we don’t
\nquite know. <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:07:56,600 –> 01:07:58,720
\nThis of course is still the
\napocalypse. <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:07:58,720 –> 01:08:02,720
\nSo the literal nature of how
\nthis all works itself out is is <\/p>\n
1153
\n01:08:02,720 –> 01:08:05,160
\ngonna remains to be seen in its
\nultimate sense. <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:08:05,160 –> 01:08:09,320
\nBut you can see what the
\ninspiration is telling us. <\/p>\n
1155
\n01:08:09,520 –> 01:08:11,760
\nIf we link it back to the Old
\nTestament and to the blessings <\/p>\n
1156
\n01:08:11,760 –> 01:08:14,560
\nof God under the under the old
\ncovenant we’ve got some <\/p>\n
1157
\n01:08:14,560 –> 01:08:16,200
\nincredible things to look
\nforward to. <\/p>\n
1158
\n01:08:16,560 –> 01:08:20,640
\nRevelation 22 says those who are
\nin this new heaven, new earth, <\/p>\n
1159
\n01:08:21,240 –> 01:08:27,720
\nshall see his face, his
\npresence, It was lost back in <\/p>\n
1160
\n01:08:27,720 –> 01:08:31,160
\nEden.
\nGod knew it was going to be lost<\/p>\n
1161
\n01:08:31,640 –> 01:08:34,479
\nin the full knowledge of God.
\nHe knew that already. <\/p>\n
1162
\n01:08:34,760 –> 01:08:39,720
\nIt wasn’t a plan that went awry
\nin that sense, as we sometimes <\/p>\n
1163
\n01:08:40,040 –> 01:08:45,479
\nmay but sort of portray it.
\nGod knew Jesus Christ was going <\/p>\n
1164
\n01:08:45,479 –> 01:08:51,399
\nto come, but the narrative tells
\nus what happens because of sin <\/p>\n
1165
\n01:08:51,399 –> 01:08:54,680
\nand what the results were.
\nAnd we we’re told that we God’s <\/p>\n
1166
\n01:08:54,680 –> 01:08:58,040
\npresence was lost and Adam may
\nhid themselves from the presence<\/p>\n
1167
\n01:08:58,040 –> 01:09:01,359
\nof the Lord.
\nWe’ve been restored under the <\/p>\n
1168
\n01:09:01,359 –> 01:09:04,680
\nnew creation that has happened
\nnow in our life. <\/p>\n
1169
\n01:09:04,680 –> 01:09:07,080
\nThe new creation came into
\neffect when Jesus was <\/p>\n
1170
\n01:09:07,080 –> 01:09:09,520
\nresurrected.
\nHe’s the first born of the new <\/p>\n
1171
\n01:09:09,520 –> 01:09:11,399
\ncreation.
\nWe are part of this new <\/p>\n
1172
\n01:09:11,399 –> 01:09:14,880
\ncreation, the connection that
\nGod’s been repaired. <\/p>\n
1173
\n01:09:15,520 –> 01:09:18,800
\nWe have boldness to come into
\nHis presence, into His face. <\/p>\n
1174
\n01:09:19,680 –> 01:09:23,279
\nBut of course the completion of
\nthat, the fulfillment of that is<\/p>\n
1175
\n01:09:23,279 –> 01:09:24,920
\nnot till we get to the very end
\nof the Bible. <\/p>\n
1176
\n01:09:24,920 –> 01:09:28,240
\nThey shall see his face, His
\nname shall be on their forehead <\/p>\n
1177
\n01:09:28,479 –> 01:09:30,680
\nheads.
\nAnd it’s expressed in such a way<\/p>\n
1178
\n01:09:30,680 –> 01:09:34,520
\nthat because of God’s face
\nthere’ll be no night there. <\/p>\n
1179
\n01:09:35,279 –> 01:09:38,640
\nThere’ll be no lamp or light or
\neven the sun. <\/p>\n
1180
\n01:09:39,960 –> 01:09:42,240
\nAs I said, how this practically
\nworks out, we don’t know. <\/p>\n
1181
\n01:09:42,240 –> 01:09:44,279
\nBut think of the the concept
\nhere. <\/p>\n
1182
\n01:09:44,279 –> 01:09:47,279
\nThe Lord shining his face and
\ngiving us Shalom. <\/p>\n
1183
\n01:09:48,120 –> 01:09:50,160
\nHe’s the ultimate expression of
\nShalom. <\/p>\n
1184
\n01:09:50,880 –> 01:09:55,640
\nGod’s face will be our light.
\nHe will shine his smile, as it <\/p>\n
1185
\n01:09:55,640 –> 01:09:58,960
\nwere, into our, into our hearts
\nand into our lives. <\/p>\n
1186
\n01:09:59,640 –> 01:10:02,880
\nAnd So what we experience now of
\nthe presence of God and the <\/p>\n
1187
\n01:10:02,880 –> 01:10:07,760
\nsmile of God in our lives is
\nreally a flickering reality. <\/p>\n
1188
\n01:10:07,760 –> 01:10:11,240
\nIt’s true and it’s a reality,
\nbut it’s a flickering reality of<\/p>\n
1189
\n01:10:11,760 –> 01:10:17,080
\nin comparison to what awaits us
\nall when God is All in all. <\/p>\n
1190
\n01:10:17,880 –> 01:10:20,400
\nSo let’s finish on the verse We
\nstarted with brothers and <\/p>\n
1191
\n01:10:20,400 –> 01:10:24,200
\nsisters just to again re anchor
\nourselves in the reality of this<\/p>\n
1192
\n01:10:25,200 –> 01:10:28,120
\nPaul’s preaching Acts 17.
\nHe’s talking to Pagan <\/p>\n
1193
\n01:10:28,320 –> 01:10:32,280
\nphilosophers in the Pagan city
\nof Athens and what does he tell <\/p>\n
1194
\n01:10:32,280 –> 01:10:33,720
\nthem?
\nHe says God made the world and <\/p>\n
1195
\n01:10:33,720 –> 01:10:36,480
\neverything in it.
\nHe gave breath and life to all <\/p>\n
1196
\n01:10:36,480 –> 01:10:40,240
\nmankind and set the bounds of
\ntheir habitation for a reason. <\/p>\n
1197
\n01:10:40,560 –> 01:10:43,640
\nThat you want to know what his
\nreason was? <\/p>\n
1198
\n01:10:43,640 –> 01:10:48,000
\nThat these humans that he
\ncreated with his, as it were his<\/p>\n
1199
\n01:10:48,000 –> 01:10:51,040
\nhands in the clay, getting his
\nhands dirty, getting down and <\/p>\n
1200
\n01:10:51,040 –> 01:10:53,680
\ndirty in the creation, breathing
\nwith his own mouth into the <\/p>\n
1201
\n01:10:54,120 –> 01:10:57,760
\nnostrils.
\nHe did that for a reason that <\/p>\n
1202
\n01:10:57,760 –> 01:11:01,440
\nthese creatures created in his
\nimage and likeness. <\/p>\n
1203
\n01:11:01,440 –> 01:11:05,600
\nHis children, his offspring,
\nshould seek him and feel their <\/p>\n
1204
\n01:11:05,600 –> 01:11:09,840
\nway towards him and actually
\nfind him ’cause he’s actually <\/p>\n
1205
\n01:11:09,840 –> 01:11:12,000
\nnot far from everyone of us or
\nin him. <\/p>\n
1206
\n01:11:12,360 –> 01:11:14,840
\nWe live and move and have our
\nvery being. <\/p>\n
1207
\n01:11:15,440 –> 01:11:15,880
\nThanks.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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